Brown fat burns calories in adult humans

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Brown adipose tissue (often known as brown fat) is a specialized tissue that burns calories to generate body heat in rodents and newborn humans, neither of which shiver.

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