Brown Fat

Brown Fat

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Minimum Wage, Indigenous Allyship, Polar Vortex

Episode: Minimum Wage, Indigenous Allyship, Polar Vortex

  • Feb 18, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 15:07 mins

When kids refuse to put on a coat or insist on wearing shorts to school in the winter, do they really not get cold? It might be so because kids and teens have more of a certain type of fat in their bodies that changes. Shingo Kajimura–a professor of Cell and Tissue Biology at UC San Francisco–is a leading expert in “brown fat.”