'Toggle switch' to burn fat identified

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 14:46 in Health & Medicine

For a long time, scientists have dreamt of converting undesirable white fat cells into brown fat cells and thus simply have excess pounds melt away. Researchers have now gotten a step closer to this goal: They decoded a “toggle switch” in mice which can significantly stimulate fat burning.

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