Saturday, August 07, 2010

Calling all Obelixes! Hope at home - Indian researchers join global scramble to develop anti-obesity pill

New Delhi, July 31: A team of industry researchers in India has synthesised novel compounds that interfere with weight-gaining mechanisms in the body and joined an international scramble to develop a new class of anti-obesity pills.

The team at Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL), Hyderabad, has shown in laboratory studies that one of these compounds, code-named 22g, helped gluttonous and obese mice lose 8 per cent of their body weight after seven days of oral medication...

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