All The Fat Cells You'll Ever Have - Sort Of

I’ve done a fair amount of work against drug targets for metabolic disorders, so a recent letter in Nature caught my eye. The authors have used an ingenious technique to determine the number and age of the adipocytes (fat cells) that an individual has, and have tracked that cell population year by year. One thing that comes out is confirmation of the fact that people basically set their number of fat cells during childhood and/or adolescence, and that number is then constant through their adul