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Scientists Discover Protein That Turns Brown Fat into a Calorie-Burning Machine

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fcpk |next [-]

quite brilliant though don't expect any easy therapies out of it yet. there is no known small fragment(ie manufacturable peptides) that bind to PLXNA1 , and the terminal fragment is about 400 amino acids, way more than what can be produced with solid peptide chemistry (100-150 amino).

madspindel |previous [-]

Could this be injected to starve cancer?