"Epigenetics tells a cell what kind of cell it is and what it should do," says Laura Hinte, a doctoral student in the group ...

A new study, led by Professor Ferdinand von Meyenn from ETH Zurich and published in Nature, offers an explanation: fat cells seem to remember obesity, making it harder to keep the weight off long ...

“We showed that fat cells from [formerly] obese mice are [functionally] different and re-gain weight faster [than mice who were always at a healthy weight],” says Ferdinand von ...