In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), has demonstrated the ...

Look down. See any belly fat? The answer should be yes, for everyone — because that fat pad isn’t just sitting there quietly. Some of it is actually part of an organ called the omentum. And the ...

(LOS ANGELES) – July 1, 2022 - In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical ...

Writing in 1902, Henry O. Marcy implored his surgical colleagues to respect the “great fatty apron” that protects abdominal organs from infection 1. That apron is the omentum, a fatty tissue that ...

Primary tumors arising in the gastrointestinal system, ovary or pancreas may spread and lead to secondary cancers such as metastatic omentum cancer.

Research published recently in the Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests that targeting macrophages in a new kind of immunotherapy could provide hope for patients with malignant ovarian cancer, ...

The quirkiest organ in the human body may be a large sheet of fat that stretches over the intestines, liver, and stomach like an elastic apron. Sometimes called the "policeman of the abdomen," the ...

Access to care and outcomes for noncurative esophagogastric cancer: A population-based geographic study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This ...

Troy Randall, an immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the omentum guy. He thinks the “apron of fat” that hugs your abdomen doesn’t get enough attention — while we’re all ...