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A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
In a promising new approach to preventing or even curing obesity, researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have unveiled a new pathway that controls human metabolism by prompting adipocytes, or fat cells, to store fat or burn it away.
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Aug 24, 2015 | A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity by apas | 131 | 151 |