Adaptation to food deprivation as a clue for treating metabolic diseases

Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 08:32 in Biology & Nature

When people are deprived of food, a number of biological mechanisms are set in motion to adapt the body’s metabolism to the conditions of scarcity. One of these processes has been revealed by a team of researchers that has discovered how three important proteins collaborate on a genetic level to provide a response to long-term fasting.

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