E-Mail IMAGE: An image showing a blood vessel in fat tissue, surrounded by fat progenitor cells (in green). view more Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Feb. 3, 2021 - Gaining more fat cells is probably not what most people want, although that might be exactly what they need to fight off diabetes and other diseases. How and where the body can add fat cells has remained a mystery - but two new studies from UT Southwestern provide answers on the way this process works. The studies, both published online today in Cell Stem Cell, describe two different processes that aff...