Adipose tissue is what makes you “fat”. Adipose tissue stores lipids in the form of “triglycerides” or 3 fatty acid chains with a glycerol backbone. These triglycerides are what is broken ...

Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats (or "healthy fats") you have to get from foods or supplements because your body doesn't make them. They're part of the support structure of every cell ...

But clinicians and researchers often overlook the other key component of fat despite its potentially harmful effects: glycerol, a compound that links fatty acids to make a fat molecule.

Fatty acids are routinely checked during medical examinations, such as blood tests measuring your lipid profile. But clinicians and researchers often overlook the other key component of fat despite ...

The research focused on lipolysis, the process through which triglycerides—lipids stored in fat cells—are broken down to produce free fatty acids and glycerol, which can be used as energy ...

For more than 50 years, it has been suspected that fat cells constantly remodel the lipids they store. Researchers have now demonstrated this process directly for the first time using culture cells.