MicroRNAs offer new hope against obesity and diabetes
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Hunger has always threatened humankind. This makes it unsurprising that human bodies attempt to store all surplus nourishment in adipose tissue. In developed countries, this life-saving craving is turning into a problem and obesity -- adiposity -- is turning into a danger. Why, though, does excess fat the body ill? How does fat trigger diabetes? And can these superfluous fat reserves be turned into warmth and just as well burnt? Scientists have now discovered that microRNAs could be a new switch of adipose cell development in humans.