Explore how blood pressure drugs can be influenced by beige fat and its role in regulating hypertension and vascular health.

Obesity causes hypertension. Hypertension causes cardiovascular disease. And cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of ...

Beige fat surrounding blood vessels actively works to keep high blood pressure in check, according to a new study in mice, promoting healthy vascular function even during obesity. The findings support ...

Boston Children's Hospital scientists have unveiled a five-day approach to generate functional vascular organoids capable of supporting blood flow and in vivo engraftment. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Paul Stankey (left) is a fourth-year PhD student at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute (both MA, USA), working in Professor Jennifer Lewis’ lab. Jennifer leads a ...

Using human liver samples and a mouse model of cirrhosis, researchers identified epigenetic overactivation of the inflammatory PAF–PAF-R pathway in hepatic macrophages as a key driver of liver damage.

Promoting brown fat activity could counteract hypertension by reshaping the molecular signals that govern vascular stiffness.