Conversion of Bad Fat (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Conversion of Bad Fat

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Adipo, a Purdue University-affiliated startup, uses an engineered polymeric nanoparticluate system in a product that could be first to convert energy-storing white (bad) fat to energy-burning brown (good) fat through regulation of Notch signaling pathway.

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Alexander M. Gokan

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