Scientists Solve a 60-Year-Old Fat Cell Mystery — and It Changes What We Know About Obesity

A decades-old assumption about how the body handles fat may have been incomplete. For 60 years, scientists believed they understood exactly how a protein called HSL worked. Since the 1960s, hormone-sensitive lipase has been recognized as one of the body’s main fat-burning enzymes, helping release stored fat when energy is needed. But there was one [...]