Enzyme hope in war on obesity
OBESE patients could lose weight without changing their diet or exercising more following research by Scots scientists.
A team at Dundee University have uncovered key links between cystic fibrosis, a debilitating inherited illness, and other conditions including cancer, diabetes and obesity.
Their findings could eventually lead to drugs being developed to exploit the enzymes that make it hard for cystic fibrosis patients to put on weight.
In reverse, the enzymes could be manipulated to help cystic fibrosis patients gain weight.
But Dr Anil Mehta predicted it would be more than ten years before treatments based on the findings would be available.
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