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'Brown fat' may be a key to curing obesity

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By manipulating levels of the protein BMP-7, Harvard Medical School researchers were able to generate a larger store of "brown" fat cells that burn calories--a pathway that could be used to pursue new therapies to fight obesity and a range of metabolic diseases. Mice injected with the protein reportedly developed more of the brown fat tissue and gained less weight. Obesity report

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