Wednesday Nite @ the Lab

My lab will now test these immunostimulatory proteins as treatments for a broad range of infections and cancers. During these studies, we had the surprising finding that one of our laboratory-generated mutant microbes caused female mice to become morbidly obese. It is not found to be the cause of the current obesity epidemic, but the dramatic weight gain in female mice after infection provides a unique opportunity to determine the connections between metabolism, immuni.