The thrill of great science is all around us in North Texas, as our colleague Miriam Fauzia reminded us in a recent story ...

What’s the Connection Between Dietary Fat and Prostate Cancer? It’s clear by now that our food – certain ingredients, how we cook it, and how much of it we eat – has a hand in our health.

Beige fat cells outcompete cancer cells for nutrients. Ahituv and his post-doc at the time, Hai Nguyen, Ph.D., were aware of ...

In the new study, Harvard researchers found that high-fat diets seem to reduce the amount of CD8+ T cells, as well as their cancer-fighting abilities. When fat is more readily available, tumors ...

In the ongoing effort to find better ways to fight cancer, scientists have developed a creative approach that uses the body’s own fat cells in a surprising way. Instead of allowing tumors to ...

Our body fat may turn out to be a secret weapon in our everlasting fight against cancer. A new study released this week suggests that fat cells can be engineered into a treatment that literally ...

Stop feeding your cancer risk." "Understand that belly fat isn’t just cosmetic — it’s carcinogenic," said Osborn. "You may not feel it now, but the clock is ticking.

July is Sarcoma Awareness Month. Sarcoma is a rare type of cancer in connective tissues like bone, muscle, fat or cartilage.

The study’s findings paint a compelling picture of how dietary choices impact cancer risk: 1. People following low-fat diets showed a 24% lower risk of developing lung cancer compared to those ...

The discovery of how hungry fat cells could suppress cancer began in 2021, when Hai Nguyen, PhD, joined Ahituv’s lab. Nguyen had years of experience working with fat cells in the laboratory. But he ...