Footloose And Cancer Free - Mice With Pten

The same people who cannot cure toenail fungus want to mess with the genes of your inner mouse.

In a perfect world, we could eat to our heart's content without sacrificing our health and good looks, and now it appears that maybe we can. Mice with an extra dose of a known anti-cancer gene lose weight even as their appetites grow. Not only that, but according to the report in the March issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism, the animals also live longer, and that isn't just because they aren't getting cancer, either.

Good luck with that.