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Article: Report from Europe.
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- Medical Device Daily
- Article date:
- July 3, 2002
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Report from Europe
Danish start-up focuses on obesity role of hypothalamus
A Medical Device Daily Staff Report
Rheoscience A/S, a Danish start-up, is applying more than 40 years of collective experience in researching the role of the hypothalamus in regulating food intake. Specifically, it is focused on the identification of novel targets associated with obesity and related metabolic disorders, and was spun out in March from the Center for Clinical and Basic Research A/S (Ballerup, Denmark), a private research foundation.
Rheosciences target discovery platform is an animal model of obesity comprising a population of rats selectively ...