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Investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple nontoxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. Credit: Georgetown University
Investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, nontoxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. Credit: Georgetown University

In what they call a “stunning research advance,” investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity.


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