Speaker spotlight: Professor Giles Yeo
16 Feb 2026 Your chance to meet some of our speakers taking part in the Cambridge Festival 2026.
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Map of brain’s appetite centre could enable new treatments for obesity and diabetes
05 Feb 2025 Scientists have created the most detailed map to date of the human hypothalamus, a crucial brain region that regulates body weight, appetite, sleep...
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Are weight loss jabs the solution to the obesity crisis?
30 Oct 2024 Almost two thirds of UK adults are overweight or obese. Are weight loss drugs the solution? Cambridge experts share their opinions.
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Scientists identify rare gene variants that confer up to 6-fold increase in risk of obesity
04 Apr 2024 Cambridge researchers have identified genetic variants in two genes that have some of the largest impacts on obesity risk discovered to date.
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Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for obesity
06 Mar 2024 New research finds around a quarter of Labrador retriever dogs face a double-whammy of feeling hungry all the time and burning fewer calories due to a...
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Female scientists lead Cambridge success in Royal Society awards 2021
24 Aug 2021 Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal, the world’s oldest...
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