protein talks to the brain

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An example of anthropomorphism:

"We discovered that GDF15 was being secreted from the liver, and then talking to the brain to tell the brain to reduce feeding."

Dr. Gregory Steinberg

Dr. Gregory Steinberg, Professor, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, was interviewed on an episode ('Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages') of the Nature podcast

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.