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Professor Roger Cox, Dr Dyan Sellayah and Professor Frances Ashcroft have discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind how the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene promotes obesity. Their findings may have important implications for future therapeutic strategies to combat obesity.
