[decimon]

Baby fat ping.

[Jack of all Trades]

...Because telling people to do 20-30 minutes of aerobic exercise before breakfast every day, hit the gym a few times a week, and reduce they’re caloric intake just doesn’t seem to work.

[neverdem]

From the BBC article:

The researchers are hopeful that it may be possible to achieve the same effect in people by injecting brown fat stem cells under the skin to burn white fat and stimulate weight loss.

Knockdown of NPY Expression in the Dorsomedial Hypothalamus Promotes Development of Brown Adipocytes and Prevents Diet-Induced Obesity

They used RNA interference via an adeno-associated virus to reduce the amount of neuropeptide Y, NPY.

An earlier article about creating induced pluripotent stem cells used another method other than adeno-associated virus. It may be needless to say, but they are leery of using adeno-associated virus in humans.

A combined ping, FReepmail me if you want on or off the stem cell or diabetes ping lists.