Scientists Identify an Epigenetic Switch That Can Slow Production of Fat Cells
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Understanding how cells become fat cells is a crucial part of tackling conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes – and a new study just gave us some important clues into how we might prevent them from turning into fat cells.
A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology took a closer look at the PPAR? protein, " a master regulator" of fat cell formation.
When PPAR? is active, it turns on a network of genes that push a cell to become – and stay – a fat cell, known as an adipocyte.
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