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Turning up the heat in the fat cell

Nature Medicine volume 10, pages 1168–1169 (2004)Cite this article

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Obesity researchers have inched closer to a long-sought goal: creating a fat cell that burns up calories without causing obesity. The trick is to knock out a protein better known for its role in cancer, the inositol-phosphatase Pten (pages 1208–1215).

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