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February 13, 2003
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Hope for keeping slim
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and Harvard Medical School have found a way that allows mice to eat whatever and whenever they want without getting fat. "Perhaps one day, if we are able to find a drug to do the same thing in humans, we might be able to prevent obesity, as well as type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases. And, who knows, we might live longer, too," says C. Ronald Kahn, leader of the research team.
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Having your cake and eating it
Researchers find way to allow mice to eat whatever and whenever they want without getting fat
Beyond terrorism's front page news
Lamont Library exhibit features fatwas, prescient warnings, and government documents
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