brown fat tissue Archive — Page 1 of 1

Multi-panel medical imaging comparison showing whole-body views at left and paired coronal chest and neck scans in fused, grayscale CT, and color-coded formats; red arrows and a dashed red line mark areas in the lower set.

June 25, 2015

Grant to spur study of ‘brown fat’s’ metabolic mysteries

Vanderbilt researchers have received a $2.15 million grant to study the amount and activity of “brown fat” in adults, with the aim of understanding its role in metabolic disease and identifying new therapeutic targets.

By Vanderbilt Health News