Farnaz Shamsi

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"Our research shows that just having brown fat isn't enough — you need the right infrastructure within the tissue for heat production." — Farnaz Shamsi, NYU

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"It works as a split signal, which is an elegant evolutionary design in which two components of a single factor independently regulate distinct processes that must be tightly coordinated in space and time." — Farnaz Shamsi, NYU

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Researchers map how a single protein builds the calorie-burning infrastructure inside brown fat

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Leading SLIT3/brown fat research program at NYU

Every obesity drug on the market works by suppressing appetite — making people eat less. A team led by NYU researcher Farnaz Shamsi has now mapped a completely different route: a protein called SLIT3 that gets sliced in two by an enzyme, with each half independently building the blood vessels and nerve wiring that brown fat needs to burn calories as heat. The discovery, published in Nature Communications and validated in tissue from more than 1,500 people, identifies multiple molecular targets that could be turned into drugs.

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Researchers map how a single protein builds the calorie-burning infrastructure inside brown fat

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