University of Louvain discovers a protein capable of preventing diabetes and obesity
Patrice Cani , a WELBIO researcher at the Louvain Drug Research Institute of the University of Louvain (UCL, Belgium), and his team in cooperation with Willem de Vos, professor at the University of Wageningen (WU), have just made two major advances in the fight against obesity and type 2 diabetes. They have succeeded in halting the development of these two diseases in mice using two distinct treatments based on a bacterium called Akkermansia. ...