On the cutting edge: perspectives in bioenergetics
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The field of bioenergetics is rapidly expanding with new discoveries of mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets. The 2023 Keystone symposium on ‘Bioenergetics in Health and Disease’,
which was jointly held with the symposium ‘Adipose Tissue: Energizing Good Fat’, consisted of a powerhouse line-up of researchers who shared their insights. Access through your institution
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CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Download references ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank Cytokinetics, Inc., Science Signaling, Pfizer Inc., the NIH, the NIDDK, Keystone
Symposia Directors fund and conference staff, and all other generous funding sources for the continuous support of the Keystone symposia. AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS *
Division of Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Melia Granath-Panelo & Shingo Kajimura * Department of Molecular Metabolism,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Melia Granath-Panelo * Integrative Physiology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Krook * Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Jared Rutter * Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA Jared Rutter & Shingo Kajimura
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bioenergetics. _Nat Rev Endocrinol_ 19, 250–251 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-023-00820-9 Download citation * Published: 03 March 2023 * Issue Date: May 2023 * DOI:
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