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Tuesday, August 21, 2007A team at Louisiana's Pennington Center found that a common virus could cause stem cells to change into fat cells in lab experiments. Researchers told the American Chemical Society conference anti-viral treatments might be possible. They took some left over fat cells from liposuction, extracted the stem cells from it and infected them with a virus- the common cold virus. The infected stem cells became fat cells. Now, the question is, does the common cold virus make its way to fat cells in the normal course of infecting a human body? There are skeptics, and justly so: Not everyone is convinced, however. Dr Colin Waine, of the National Obesity Forum in the UK, said that while it was attractive to chase a "holy grail", more practical measures were the best way to tackle the western world's obesity epidemic. "Basically, when energy consumed exceeds expenditure, that's when weight increases." We know what causes obesity. We just keep trying to ignore those basic laws of nature. posted by Sydney on 8/21/2007 08:16:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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