Birds, Dinosaurs and Brown Fat

The ordinary lard is more than familiar to most of us. However, mammals also have a different fatty tissue called brown fat, involved in generating heat. A new study made at New York Medical College and published in the journal BMC Biology has discovered why birds lack this tissue. In the end... [ read more >> ]

Brown fat in the body of a human infant

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Brown fat in the body of a human infant