Obesity: GDF15 tells the brain to lose weight

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 827 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.241 Author: M. Teresa Villanueva Obesity treatments that do not involve invasive surgery are greatly needed. Now, a team of scientists from Amgen provide evidence that harnessing the activity of growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15; also known as MIC1) can lower the body weight of obese mice and monkeys through
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