
Scientists know the stomach talks to the brain, but two new studies from Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ) researchers suggest the conversation is really a tug-of-war, with one side urging another to bite, the other signaling "enough." Together, the papers in Nature Metabolism and Nature Communications trace the first complementary wiring diagram of hunger and satiety in ways that could refine today's blockbuster weight-loss drugs and blunt their side effects.