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Researchers Teach Mice To Exhale Fat

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: July 10th, 2009, 8:30pm EDT

destinyland writes "UCLA researchers made a startling discovery: genetic alterations enable mice to convert fat into carbon dioxide. Mammals digest fats differently than bacteria mdash; so researchers introduced bacteria genes into mouse livers, and 'the excess fat was literally released into thin air.' (One researcher calls it 'an unconventional idea which we borrowed from plants and bacteria.') The research potentially could help treat serious medical conditions including diabetes, heart disease mdash; and of course, obesity."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/2310235/Researchers-Teach-Mice-To-Exhale-Fat?from=rss"img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/07/10/2310235"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/2310235/Researchers-Teach-Mice-To-Exhale-Fat?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wMjSmjVATa5DgvIEZafLOfQyeJU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wMjSmjVATa5DgvIEZafLOfQyeJU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wMjSmjVATa5DgvIEZafLOfQyeJU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wMjSmjVATa5DgvIEZafLOfQyeJU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/qrHjLDM0RiM" height="1" width="1"/

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