Work headed by scientist Antonio Zorzano proposes a possible therapeutic target to treat fatty liver, a disease for which there is currently no treatment. The study, which was done in collaboration with the Pere Virgili Institute, was published in the journal Cell.

In mice whose body clock—an internal mechanism located in the brain—does not work properly, each tissue still knows what time it is and has the capacity to respond to changes in light intensity. The study, published in the journal Cell, is a collaboration between IRB Barcelona and the University of California, Irvine (US).