New Fat-fighting Pathway Discovered

Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 11:21 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have discovered a process that controls the amount of fat that cells store for use as a back-up energy source. Disruption of this process allows cellular fat to accumulate -- a key factor in age-related metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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