A gimmick-free weight-loss pill in the works

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 08:00 in Biology & Nature

A Universite de Montreal research team is developing a pill composed of leptin, the protein that tells our brain to stop eating. 'Mice deprived of leptin will not stop eating. They become so big they have trouble moving around,' says Moise Bendayan, a pathology professor at the Universite de Montreal Faculty of Medicine who has studied the leptin protein extensively...

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