CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental drug that chokes off the blood supply to fat cells helped obese monkeys slim down, a sign that it may work in people, too, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The ...

There are more rhesus monkeys than you’d think out there getting fat. Getting really fat. And it’s not their fault; it’s because they’re being used as research subjects in studies about obesity and ...

Studies suggest the peptidomimetic molecule Adipotide may have pro-apoptotic characteristics and has been suggested to induce weight loss in rhesus monkeys and mice. The order of its components is ...

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Slimming Down Obese Monkeys; When Risk-Taking Stalls Discovered: getting obese monkeys to lose weight, optimism abounds for the religious, when people stop taking risks, communicating with those in a ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The round tummies of vervet monkeys may play a key role in unlocking the hereditary risks of obesity in humans. A colony of 450 members was recently moved from Los Angeles to the ...