Human stem cells used to turn bad fat into good fat could create "a pill that can replace the treadmill"

12/08/2014 - 00:00

By B. D. Colen-

HSCI principal faculty member Chad Cowan and his team members at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard affiliate, say they have created a system using human stem cells to screen for compounds that have the potential to turn white, or “bad,” fat cells into brown, or “good,” fat cells, and have already identified two compounds that can accomplish that in human cells.

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