Weight-Loss Enzyme Identified by Brown Researchers

While not the solution to holiday weight gain, a new study from Brown University researchers sheds promising new light on metabolism and weight loss.

Scientists report that they substantially curbed weight gain, improved metabolism, and improved the efficacy of insulin in mice by engineering them to express a specific human enzyme in their fat tissue. Although the obesity prevention came at the significant cost of widespread inflammation, the research offers new clues about the connections among obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, and inflammation...