Cambridge has been awarded two of Wellcome’s eight new Discovery Research Platforms, the global charitable foundation announced today.
Our bodies contain two types of fat: white fat and brown fat. While white fat stores calories, brown fat burns energy and could help us lose weight...
The flexible physiology of Barbary macaques in responding to extreme environmental conditions of their natural habitat may help shed light on the...
Almost all of our genes may be influenced by the food we eat, according to new research published in the journal Nature Microbiology . The study...
The fatter we are, the more our body appears to produce a protein that inhibits our ability to burn fat, suggests new research published in the...
Baker’s yeast cells living together in communities help feed each other, but leave incomers from the same species to die from starvation, according...
Green wall technology and semi-transparent solar panels have been combined to generate electrical current from a renewable source of energy both day...
The chemical reactions behind metabolism – the processes that occur within all living organisms in order to sustain life – may have formed...
A £10.8m new university research facility, the MRC Metabolic Disease Unit was officially and jointly opened today by the Chief Executive of the...
Researchers believe the gene could be a useful therapeutic target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes
Mice gain weight even when eating normal amount of food.
Protein highlights ‘ideal mechanism’ for development of new therapies to fight obesity.
