Tag: POMC

• Research finds role of Rap1 gene in obesity and glucose metabolism

  Credit: M. Fukuda/Cell Reports Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have discovered a new mechanism in the mouse brain that regulates obesity. The study, which appears in Cell Reports today, shows that this new mechanism can potentially be targeted to treat obesity. Fukuda and colleagues…

  Sreeram Penna

  October 22, 2016