Fat Rat is excited to open this space to a variety of genres — gypsy folk-rock duo Megan Jean and the KFB will headline a show next month — but he also wants to provide a space that caters ...

Diabetes is a scourge of modern life. Of the nearly 26 million Americans living with the condition, more than 90 percent have Type 2, the chronic disease associated with a cascade of health woes — ...

Rats vary in their propensity to become obese when eating a high-fat diet, but the factors that make some rats susceptible and others resistant to diet-induced obesity are unclear. Recent studies show ...

A rotund rodent with a whole lotta “winter flab” had to be rescued by an entire team of firefighters after she became stuck in a sewer grate. The chubby little lady was found stuck in the manhole on ...

Total liver polysomes were isolated from rats that had fasted for 48 hr and that then had been re-fed a high-carbohydrate, fat-free diet for 20-24 hr. Indirect immunoprecipitation of the polysomes ...