Adipose Organoids: Can Doctor Who help us treat Type 2 Diabetes?

By LifETIME CDT Student: Elaine Duncan (University of Glasgow) In a 2008 episode of Doctor Who, the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) and his new companion Donna (Catherine Tate) saved the world from an alien diet pill.  This pill caused a person’s fat to literally jump out of their body, forming small white creatures called Adipose (Figure …