Muscle gene may provide new treatments for obesity and diabetes

In muscle, a protein called MED1 normally suppresses a genetic program that holds in check certain energy expenditure pathways. But when Rockefeller University scientists removed this gene in mice, a number of genes that are usually suppressed were activated, suggesting that targeting the Med1 gene could provide new therapeutical approaches to treating such metabolic diseases as obesity and diabetes.

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