Patients with obesity sometimes have leptin resistance, and the "full" feeling does not get through to the brain. The new ...

Those little fruit flies floating around the ripening cantaloupes pack some fat between their tiny wings. They’re cold-blooded and burn their fat to warm up. “They have really beautiful fat, the flies ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who have higher levels of an appetite-suppressing hormone produced by fat cells may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or dementia than others, U.S. researchers ...

Treatment with leptin, a natural hormone that helps control body weight, could help many fat people slim down, even if they already have some in their bodies, a new study suggests. Leptin treatment ...

A paper published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine reports that low doses of recombinant leptin, the fat-derived hormone, corrected hormonal deficiencies, and in some cases, restored ...

For more than a hundred years, insulin has been the key to controlling type 1 diabetes. It has saved lives by preventing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening condition that happens when the ...

To eat or to mate -- that is the question (and the answer is: moderately hungry mice choose to mate). Researchers show that hungry mice prioritize interacting with members of the opposite sex over ...