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Brown FatTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1537, Segment 3

Feb 18, 2021 • 15m

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.”

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