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Published online 10 May 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040503-14
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Mice fight the flab
Cancer strategy could be used to treat obesity.
Chubbymice have shaped up with a new slimming aid, based on a technique used in cancer therapy that destroys blood vessels. The researchers say that after clinical trials on humans this may become a useful weapon in the war on obesity.
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