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Turning up the heat in the fat cell
Domenico Accili
& Luca Valenti
Domenico Accili and Luca Valenti are in the Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA. da230@columbia.edu
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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