leptin?

[Jack H. Pincus]

In article <DD6rA2.1r0 at cunews.carleton.ca>, vprasad at chat.carleton.ca 
says...
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>        i have heard a lot recently about the "fat gene" and the
>possibility of synthesizing some sort of "cure for obesity"....where
>would i get more info on that - specifically the uses in sports 
medicines?
>


The only testing so far has been done is strains of obese mice.  There 
are three articles on the results in last weeks Science by researchers 
from Amgen and the Rockefeller University.

Jack H. Pincus
jhpincus at cris.com