A Way to Block Fat From Entering Tissues (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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Preventing fat absorption by zippering lacteals. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 10, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Feng Zhang at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and colleagues was titled, "Lacteal junction zippering protects against diet-induced obesity."

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