Liver-targeting medicine reverses obesity, lowers cholesterol in mice: Research

Washington DC [US], August 30 (ANI): A biomedical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst used a nanogel-based carrier developed in his lab to deliver a medicine solely to the livers of obese mice, thereby curing their diet-induced disease.

"The treated mice completely lost their gained weight, and we did not see any untoward side effects," says S. Thai Thayumanavan, distinguished professor of chemistry and bi