{"id":151206,"date":"2022-11-26T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-accidentally-discover-weight-loss-therapy-after-mice-start-sweating-fat-from-their-skin"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:24:56","slug":"scientists-accidentally-discover-weight-loss-therapy-after-mice-start-sweating-fat-from-their-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-accidentally-discover-weight-loss-therapy-after-mice-start-sweating-fat-from-their-skin","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Accidentally Discover Weight Loss Therapy After Mice Start Sweating Fat From Their Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-accidentally-discover-weight-loss-therapy-after-mice-start-sweating-fat-from-their-skin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accidental science is the best. One of the greatest lifesaving drugs in history \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/health-and-medicine\/woman-with-penicillin-allergy-went-into-anaphylaxis-after-performing-oral-sex\/\">penicillin<\/a> \u2013 was discovered purely by accident, and such experiments truly show how intricate and unpredictable science is.<\/p>\n<p>So, when researchers from the University of Pennsylvania began their journey looking for a type 2 diabetes treatment and stumbled across a potentially incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/health-and-medicine\/fda-approves-obesity-drug-that-can-cut-body-weight-by-up-to-a-fifth\/\">weight-loss treatment<\/a>, needless to say, they were more than surprised.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers describe their new results in a paper in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/373\/6554\/eabd2893\">Science<\/a>, in which they applied a treatment to a group of lab mice in the pursuit of counteracting type 2 diabetes. Instead of performing as expected, the experiment took a surprising turn \u2013 the mice started secreting a slimy substance through their skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accidental science is the best. One of the greatest lifesaving drugs in history \u2013 penicillin \u2013 was discovered purely by accident, and such experiments truly show how intricate and unpredictable science is. So, when researchers from the University of Pennsylvania began their journey looking for a type 2 diabetes treatment and stumbled across a potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}