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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Accili, D., Valenti, L. Turning up the heat in the fat cell. Nat Med 10, 1168–1169 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1104-1168
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