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Coopting a Cancer Treatment to Spur Fat Loss Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Both cancer and obesity kill hundreds of thousands of patients each year, but they have more than the Grim Reaper in common. Tumors and excess fat are both unhealthy accumulations of tissue that require elaborate networks of blood vessels to feed them. Now Zafgen, a biopharmaceutical startup based in Cambridge, MA, is attacking obesity the way that cancer researchers have been attacking tumors for decades: using drugs that interfere with its blood supply. (source: technologyreview.com)
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