Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 23:07 in Health & Medicine

In recent years, obesity has taken on epidemic proportions in developed nations, contributing significantly to major medical problems, early death and rising health care costs. According to Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, at least a quarter of all American adults and more than 15 percent of children and adolescents are obese...

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