Control of body weight /newsroom/taxonomy/term/4740/all en Brain cells that aid appetite control identified /newsroom/channels/news/brain-cells-aid-appetite-control-identified-260810 <p><em><strong><span>By Katherine Gombay, <a href="/newsroom">ƻԺ Newsroom</a></span></strong></em></p> <p><em><span>​Discovery opens door to development of new drugs to control weight gain and obesity</span></em></p> <p><span>It’s rare for scientists to get what they describe as “clean” results without spending a lot of time repeating the same experiment over and over again. But when researchers saw the mice they were working with doubling their weight within a month or two, they knew they were on to something.</span></p> Wed, 11 May 2016 14:35:00 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 25820 at /newsroom