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Brown fat heats up

Calorie-burning brown fat shows up(left, black areas) in a PET-CT scan of a man after two hours in a chilly 16 degree Celsius room but is not apparent in a scan at 22 degrees Celsius, or room temperature. Credit: W. D. Van Marken Lichtenbelt et al./NEJM 2009

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