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Sweet discovery rewrites understanding of how our bodies store sugar

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Sweet discovery rewrites understanding of how our bodies store sugar
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WEHI researchers have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism our bodies use to regulate sugar, in findings that rewrite the fundamental rules of biology and open a new frontier in science. Published in Nature, the study is the first to uncover a potential therapeutic process that could be used to directly reduce the amount of sugar stored in the body. The paper is titled "Ubiquitination of glycogen and metabolites in cells and tissues."

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