Medical Discovery News: New drug shrinks fat without affecting appetite

This week David Niesel and Norbert Herzog discuss research being conducted to develop a new type of drug that shrinks fat without affecting appetite. UTMB’s Stan Watowich and his colleagues have been working on a drug that targets a key protein called NNMT in specialized cells that store fat. This new approach shows real promise for treating obesity, one of the biggest public health threats of our time. The Galveston County Daily News also published Medical Discovery News.