Fats articles within Nature

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• Letter | 25 September 2019

  Milk of ruminants in ceramic baby bottles from prehistoric child graves

  Small, spouted vessels found in Bronze and Iron Age graves of infants in Bavaria were used to feed the milk of domesticated animals to infants.

  • J. Dunne
  • , K. Rebay-Salisbury
  •  & R. P. Evershed

• Letter | 08 February 2017

  EPRS is a critical mTORC1–S6K1 effector that influences adiposity in mice

  Glutamyl-prolyl tRNA synthetase (EPRS) is a downstream effector of the mTORC1–S6K1 signalling axis and contributes to adiposity and ageing in mice.

  • Abul Arif
  • , Fulvia Terenzi
  •  & Paul L. Fox

• News & Views | 04 July 2012

  Fat, bile and gut microbes

  Western-style diets could be contributing to the rapid increase in inflammatory bowel disease. New research suggests that dietary fat can alter bile composition and so favour the growth of pro-inflammatory gut microbes. See Letter p.104

  • Peter J. Turnbaugh

• Letter | 22 April 2012

  A PPARγ–FGF1 axis is required for adaptive adipose remodelling and metabolic homeostasis

  PPARγ induces fibroblast growth factor 1 to remodel visceral adipose tissue in response to a high-fat diet to maintain metabolic homeostasis.

  • Johan W. Jonker
  • , Jae Myoung Suh
  •  & Ronald M. Evans

• Brief Communications Arising | 01 April 2010

  Fischer et al. reply

  • Julia Fischer
  • , Linda Koch
  •  & Ulrich Rüther

• Research Highlights | 31 March 2010

  Addiction: Junk-food junkies