Researchers Manipulate Fat-Storing White Cells, Offer Renewed Hope For Weight Loss Pill.

they’re one step closer to creating” a weight loss pill “thanks to a breakthrough that can change the way energy-storing white fat cells behave.” For the report, published in Nature Cell Biology, “scientists screened about 1,000 compounds and found two that make the white fat cells act more like their brown cousins, which burn excess energy rather than store it.” The researchers “worked with stem cells that would normally turn into white fat cells,” and by “exposing the cells to drugs,” such as Pfizer Inc’s rheumatoid arthritis medicine Xeljanz (tofacitinib), “made them behave more like brown cells that burn fat to regulate body temperature. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-08/fat-burning-pill-closer-to-reality-harvard-researchers-say.html