Making metabolism more inefficient can reduce obesity
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 10:42
in Health & Medicine
In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in 'fat-burning' can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity. These unusual findings, appearing this week in the JBC, might lead to some new roads in weight-loss therapy...