March 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, this z-projection shows extensive microtubule networks (gold) and nuclei (pink) in adipocytes 🔬 #CellBiology #Microscopy
June 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, this z-projection shows extensive microtubule networks (gold) and nuclei (pink) in adipocytes 🔬 #CellBiology #Microscopy
For #FluorescenceFriday, microtubule networks are shown in two adipocytes 🔬 #CellBiology #Microscopy
September 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, microtubule networks are shown in two adipocytes 🔬 #CellBiology #Microscopy
#FlyWeek fun for #FluorescenceFriday, nuclei and α-spectrin are shown in this stack of adipocytes from adult Drosophila 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
May 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#FlyWeek fun for #FluorescenceFriday, nuclei and α-spectrin are shown in this stack of adipocytes from adult Drosophila 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
For #FluorescenceFriday, lipid droplets (orange) and α-spectrin (blue) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
April 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, lipid droplets (orange) and α-spectrin (blue) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
For #FluorescenceFriday, large lipid droplets (orange) and alpha-spectrin (blue) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
February 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, large lipid droplets (orange) and alpha-spectrin (blue) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
Just recently I wrote an opinion piece with Shingo Kajimura, based around the idea that adipocytes, besides having energy storage/endocrine function, also act as immune hubs #Immunosky 🧪
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Traditionally, adipocytes have been viewed as energy storage units, which upregulate inflammatory factors in response to obesity. However, emerging evidence demonstrates that adipocytes are highly re...
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December 7, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Just recently I wrote an opinion piece with Shingo Kajimura, based around the idea that adipocytes, besides having energy storage/endocrine function, also act as immune hubs #Immunosky 🧪
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Happy Valentine’s Day! 💞 For this #FluorescenceFriday, lots of lovely lipid droplets (pink) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #Science #Valentines
February 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day! 💞 For this #FluorescenceFriday, lots of lovely lipid droplets (pink) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #Science #Valentines
For #FluorescenceFriday, a GFP reporter shows nuclei (fire) nestled between lots of lipid droplets in this set of adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
April 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, a GFP reporter shows nuclei (fire) nestled between lots of lipid droplets in this set of adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - @nadavahituv.bsky.social go.nature.com/4gqhxvw
Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - Nature Biotechnology
Adipose manipulation transplantation can reduce tumor growth and proliferation in vitro and in mouse models.
go.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - @nadavahituv.bsky.social go.nature.com/4gqhxvw
Research Highlight: Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment, via @naturerevendo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment - Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Nature Reviews Endocrinology - Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment
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February 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Research Highlight: Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment, via @naturerevendo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just recently I wrote an opinion piece with Shingo Kajimura, based around the idea that adipocytes, besides having energy storage/endocrine function, also act as immune hubs. We’ve known for a long time that they’re responsive to cytokines & in turn express cytokines 1/🧵
#Immunosky 🧪
#Immunosky 🧪
FEBS Press
Traditionally, adipocytes have been viewed as energy storage units, which upregulate inflammatory factors in response to obesity. However, emerging evidence demonstrates that adipocytes are highly re...
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Just recently I wrote an opinion piece with Shingo Kajimura, based around the idea that adipocytes, besides having energy storage/endocrine function, also act as immune hubs. We’ve known for a long time that they’re responsive to cytokines & in turn express cytokines 1/🧵
#Immunosky 🧪
#Immunosky 🧪
🆕 ADVANCE ONLINE 🆕
CANCER METABOLISM REVIEW: Dangerous liaisons: interactions between cancer cells and adipocytes as drivers of cancer progression
By Carolina Dehesa Caballero and Almut Schulze
➡️ https://ow.ly/lFIS50ZRaTF
#cancer #adipocytes #metabolism
CANCER METABOLISM REVIEW: Dangerous liaisons: interactions between cancer cells and adipocytes as drivers of cancer progression
By Carolina Dehesa Caballero and Almut Schulze
➡️ https://ow.ly/lFIS50ZRaTF
#cancer #adipocytes #metabolism
September 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🆕 ADVANCE ONLINE 🆕
CANCER METABOLISM REVIEW: Dangerous liaisons: interactions between cancer cells and adipocytes as drivers of cancer progression
By Carolina Dehesa Caballero and Almut Schulze
➡️ https://ow.ly/lFIS50ZRaTF
#cancer #adipocytes #metabolism
CANCER METABOLISM REVIEW: Dangerous liaisons: interactions between cancer cells and adipocytes as drivers of cancer progression
By Carolina Dehesa Caballero and Almut Schulze
➡️ https://ow.ly/lFIS50ZRaTF
#cancer #adipocytes #metabolism
A very innovative approach to cancer: engineering fat cells to convert to beige fat to starve tumors, outcompeting 5 types of cancer in experimental models
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social
Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - Nature Biotechnology
Adipose manipulation transplantation can reduce tumor growth and proliferation in vitro and in mouse models.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A very innovative approach to cancer: engineering fat cells to convert to beige fat to starve tumors, outcompeting 5 types of cancer in experimental models
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social
lipomancer dungeon or fattening ecosphere is so fucking hot
the peril of trying to get out before immobility claims you
and adding the peril of a real bad end on top...
trying to push your fleeting mobility as something in the air activates your adipocytes, fattening you more with every step...
the peril of trying to get out before immobility claims you
and adding the peril of a real bad end on top...
trying to push your fleeting mobility as something in the air activates your adipocytes, fattening you more with every step...
May 28, 2026 at 12:27 AM
lipomancer dungeon or fattening ecosphere is so fucking hot
the peril of trying to get out before immobility claims you
and adding the peril of a real bad end on top...
trying to push your fleeting mobility as something in the air activates your adipocytes, fattening you more with every step...
the peril of trying to get out before immobility claims you
and adding the peril of a real bad end on top...
trying to push your fleeting mobility as something in the air activates your adipocytes, fattening you more with every step...
ICYMI: New content online: Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment
Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment
Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41574-025-01095-yEngineering adipocytes for cancer treatment
www.nature.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
ICYMI: New content online: Engineering adipocytes for cancer treatment
🚨Great way to start the week! Delighted to have published this Viewpoint in The FEBS Journal with collaborator Shingo Kajimura, proposing that adipocytes form immune hubs during infection! #Immunosky #AcademicSky
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FEBS Press
Traditionally, adipocytes have been viewed as energy storage units, which upregulate inflammatory factors in response to obesity. However, emerging evidence demonstrates that adipocytes are highly re....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM
🚨Great way to start the week! Delighted to have published this Viewpoint in The FEBS Journal with collaborator Shingo Kajimura, proposing that adipocytes form immune hubs during infection! #Immunosky #AcademicSky
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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As a dietitian, I learned this in grad school also. Furthermore, more adipocytes = more hormone receptors craving glucose. Wild
January 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM
As a dietitian, I learned this in grad school also. Furthermore, more adipocytes = more hormone receptors craving glucose. Wild
Adult #Drosophila adipocytes by @isaiahwill.bsky.social for #FluorescenceFriday (cell membranes and nuclear lamina labeled (red) with alpha spectrin and Lamin C antibodies, respectively, from @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social; lipid droplets labeled with BODIPY (green))
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Adult #Drosophila adipocytes by @isaiahwill.bsky.social for #FluorescenceFriday (cell membranes and nuclear lamina labeled (red) with alpha spectrin and Lamin C antibodies, respectively, from @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social; lipid droplets labeled with BODIPY (green))
Check out this @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
The obesity-linked peptide SP16 regulates adipocytes through GIP and insulin receptor
🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Hanh Ngo & Dr. Maude Giroud @boehringerglobal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
The obesity-linked peptide SP16 regulates adipocytes through GIP and insulin receptor
🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Hanh Ngo & Dr. Maude Giroud @boehringerglobal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
www.biorxiv.org
June 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Check out this @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
The obesity-linked peptide SP16 regulates adipocytes through GIP and insulin receptor
🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Hanh Ngo & Dr. Maude Giroud @boehringerglobal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
The obesity-linked peptide SP16 regulates adipocytes through GIP and insulin receptor
🥳 Congratulations to our PhD student Hanh Ngo & Dr. Maude Giroud @boehringerglobal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
RESEARCH | M Ahmadian, S Reilly et al
@UCSDMedSchool, @weillcornell.bsky.social
Free fatty acids drive uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes in obese thermoneutral-adapted mice 🧪
@UCSDMedSchool, @weillcornell.bsky.social
Free fatty acids drive uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes in obese thermoneutral-adapted mice 🧪
Fatty acids promote uncoupled respiration via ATP/ADP carriers in white adipocytes - Nature Metabolism
Free fatty acids drive uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes, mediated in complex with ATP/ADP carriers, to modulate thermogenesis and cold tolerance in obese thermoneutral-adapted mice.
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April 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
RESEARCH | M Ahmadian, S Reilly et al
@UCSDMedSchool, @weillcornell.bsky.social
Free fatty acids drive uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes in obese thermoneutral-adapted mice 🧪
@UCSDMedSchool, @weillcornell.bsky.social
Free fatty acids drive uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes in obese thermoneutral-adapted mice 🧪
Engineered adipocytes target tumor growth in cancer models #NBTintheNews www.genengnews.com/topics/cance...
Engineered Adipocytes Target Tumor Growth in Cancer Models
A new approach that used CRISPR to engineer adipocytes and implant them in mice models of cancer reduced cancer progression.
www.genengnews.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Engineered adipocytes target tumor growth in cancer models #NBTintheNews www.genengnews.com/topics/cance...
Gap junction–mediated electrical communication between adipocytes and sensory neurons may regulate feeding
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Gap junction–mediated electrical communication between adipocytes and sensory neurons may regulate feeding
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Preprint alert! Excited to share this manuscript from my PhD which aims to answer an age-old question. Does size matter? For fat cells, or adipocytes, the answer seems to be yes. We found that larger adipocytes promote aggressive behavior in breast cancer cells. 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hypertrophic adipocytes increase extracellular vesicle-mediated lipid release and reprogram breast cancer cell metabolism
Obesity worsens cancer-specific survival and all-cause mortality for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Rich in adipose tissue, the breast exhibits increased adipocyte size in obesity, which correlat...
www.biorxiv.org
April 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Preprint alert! Excited to share this manuscript from my PhD which aims to answer an age-old question. Does size matter? For fat cells, or adipocytes, the answer seems to be yes. We found that larger adipocytes promote aggressive behavior in breast cancer cells. 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...