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Neither brown nor white

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Fat cells are usually thought of as being either energy-storing white fat cells or food-burning brown fat cells. The identification of a third type of fat cell in mice and humans might open up new avenues for combating obesity.

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Figure 1: Different progenitors, different colours.

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  1. Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard are at The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.,

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