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Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity
11-20-2006 · EurekAlert!Parasite-infected dragonflies suffer the same metabolic disorders that have led to an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans, according to research to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The discovery expands the known taxonomic breadth of metabolic disease and suggests that the study of microbes found in human intestines may provide a greater understanding of the root causes of human metabolic dysfunction.
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