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 ...

In combination, two commonly used heart drugs reverse fat accumulation in the liver, a study in animals has shown.

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 ...