Soon, obesity pill to replace treadmill

A team of scientists at Harvard are developing a pill that converts white fat to brown fat.

The study conducted at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital are describing the step as "the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill" for the control of obesity.

Chad Cowan, an HSCI Principal Faculty Member and his HSCI team reported that they have created a system using human stem cells to screen for compounds that have the potential to turn white, or "bad", fat cells into brown, or "good" fat cells, and have already identified two compounds that can accomplish that in human cells.