Not all adipose tissue is bad for metabolic health ... functional catalogue of a mammalian genome,” Seong explained. They are systematically phenotyping 20,000 knockout mouse strains ...

The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary ... of white fat known interchangeably as visceral fat—visceral adipose tissue, or just plain old VAT. Visceral adipose tissue is located in ...

This indicates that marsupials do not possess the fully evolved brown adipose tissue found in placental mammals. Additionally, the heater protein UCP1 does not produce heat in marsupials ...