Exercise and Health: Can Biotechnology Confer Similar Benefits?
Open Access
- 29 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (3) , e68
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020068
Abstract
Education and public policies are largely failing to encourage people to exercise. Could our knowledge of exercise biology lead to pharmaceutical treaments that could confer the same benefits as exercise?Keywords
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