Boosting good fat to burn off the bad

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To most dieters, no fat is good fat. But in work published this week in Nature, an insight into the origin of a special class of calorie-burning fat cells could lead to new ways of boosting metabolism and combating obesity, researchers say.

This article outlines research suggesting that brown fat cells, which convert energy into heat but remain otherwise mysterious, may not arise from the same tissue as our garden-variety white fat cells

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Regulation of the brown and white fat gene programs

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In this paper, the data show that the regulated docking of the CtBP proteins on PRDM16 controls the brown and white fat-selective gene programs.

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