‘Exercise pill’ switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat
biomedical | biotechnology | diabetes | exercise | health | metabolism | obesity | technology | weight loss
By giving ordinary adult mice a drug - a synthetic designed to mimic fat - Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat. Even when the mice are not active, turning on the chemical switch activates [...]
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