Fundamental Breakthrough Could Lead to Treatments for Obesity

If you tend toward obesity, blame your genes. Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered how the genes and proteins that cause your body to store fat - or use it - work. Organisms from yeast to humans all share the ability to store fat within cells, and now one of the main mechanisms and the potential for regulating that metabolic pathway seems possible.

If you tend toward obesity, blame your genes. Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered how the genes and proteins that cause your body to store fat - or use it - work. Organisms from yeast to humans all share the ability to store fat within cells, and now one of the main mechanisms and the potential for regulating that metabolic pathway seems possible.

If you tend toward obesity, blame your genes. Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered how the genes and proteins that cause your body to store fat - or use it - work. Organisms from yeast to humans all share the ability to store fat within cells, and now one of the main mechanisms and the potential for regulating that metabolic pathway seems possible.

If you tend toward obesity, blame your genes. Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered how the genes and proteins that cause your body to store fat - or use it - work. Organisms from yeast to humans all share the ability to store fat within cells, and now one of the main mechanisms and the potential for regulating that metabolic pathway seems possible.