Research Technician in Molecular and Cell Biology at Imperial College London

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Transforming white adipose to brown could be used to combat obesity

20 Sept 2017

According to a study, published in Cell Reports, blocking protein, PexRAP, enables white fat cells to be converted to brown adipose, in a mouse model.

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