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Experts from the Czech Academy of Science’s Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a new compound that could address two major health challenges of the present day: obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. I discussed the promising new compound, which is derived from one of the peptides naturally occurring in the brain, with head of the research team, Lenka Maletínská:
“We are working with peptidic hormones, which regulate food intake, and we are studying their mechanism of action and also their role in obesity, for example.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková