Little-known Protein Appears to Play Important Role in Obesity and Metabolic Disease
The recently discovered protein is normally abundant in fat; without it, the body struggles to manage glucose and insulin.
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Strangest Scientific Discovery Of 2018? Memory Formation Appears To Be Facilitated By The Same Mechanism As A Viral Infection
A pair of papers published in Cell on January 11 suggest that the protein encoded by one such gene uses its virus-like structure to shuttle information between cells: a new form of cellular communication that may be key to long-term memory formation and other neurological functions.