Adipocytes at the Core of Bone Function

Marrow adipose tissue (MAT) is a specialized adipose tissue with endocrine function found in bone marrow. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Ambrosi et al., 2017Ambrosi T.H. Scialdone A. Graja A. Gohlke S. Jank A.-M. Bocian C. Woelk L. Fan H. Logan D.W. Schürmann A. et al.Cell Stem Cell. 2017; 20 (this issue): 771-784Google Scholar identify a stem cell population in the bone marrow that can give rise to both osteogenic and adipogenic MAT...