obesity-drugs
2 stories tagged "obesity-drugs"
Metabolic & Weight
This Weight-Loss Hormone Protected Mouse Livers Without a Pound Lost. Novo Nordisk Supplied It and Put Two Scientists on the Study.
The hormone works through the same brainstem switch that makes weight-loss drugs nauseating, and the company developing it supplied the compound, funded the mouse study, and put two of its scientists on the author list.
Metabolic & WeightLilly Turned the Receptor On, Amgen Turned It Off, and Both Strip Weight. The Map Came Four Years Late.
Eli Lilly's tirzepatide switches the gut-hormone receptor on. Amgen's MariTide blocks it. Both drive weight loss, and until a publicly funded Cambridge mouse study, no one had cleanly mapped how one receptor works in both directions.