Focus Issue: Diabetes--Fighting Fat on Multiple Fronts

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Sci. STKE, 25 January 2005
Vol. 2005, Issue 268, p. eg2
[DOI: 10.1126/stke.2682005eg2]

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Focus Issue: Diabetes—Fighting Fat on Multiple Fronts

Elizabeth M. Adler¹^*

¹ Associate Editor of Science's STKE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA.

Summary: Diabetes, an increasing problem worldwide, involves both insulin resistance and deficiencies in insulin secretion. This week’s issues of Science and Science’s STKE explore genetic factors that predispose to the development of diabetes as well as the links between diabetes and obesity.

*Contact Information. E-mail: eadler{at}aaas.org

Citation: E. M. Adler, Focus Issue: Diabetes—Fighting Fat on Multiple Fronts. Sci. STKE 2005, eg2 (2005).

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