Mice can eat 'junk' and not get fat

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 12:49 in Health & Medicine

A study in the September 4th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, identifies a gene that springs into action in response to a high fat diet. Mice that lack the gene become essentially immune to growing obese, regardless of their eating habits.

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