BIRC6

And increasingly, we're realizing that these RNAs can perform regulatory functions rather than simply representing biological debris.

Researchers studying obesity found a circular RNA derived from the BIRC6 gene, and that's B-I-R-C 6 gene, that accumulated within mitochondria in white adipose tissue.

They named it BRAKE, and those are all capital letters, capital B-R-A-K-E, BRAKE.

And when BRAKE was knocked down specifically in the fat cells of obese male mice, Something pretty dramatic happened.