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Close-up of artwork representing Acinar tissue - "The flowers of diabetes"

Wellcome awards Cambridge £18 million for two Discovery Research Platforms

04 May 2023
Cambridge has been awarded two of Wellcome’s eight new Discovery Research Platforms, the global charitable foundation announced today.
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Weight loss nutrition

Study in mice suggests drug to turn fat ‘brown’ could help fight obesity

26 Nov 2018
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...
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Barbary Macaques in their natural habitat of the Atlas Mountains

Monkeys regulate metabolism to cope with environment and rigours of mating season

20 Apr 2016
The flexible physiology of Barbary macaques in responding to extreme environmental conditions of their natural habitat may help shed light on the...
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Fruits & Vegetables

Could the food we eat affect our genes? Study in yeast suggests this may be the case

11 Feb 2016
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...
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Lose weight now

Stored fat fights against the body’s attempts to lose weight

24 Nov 2015
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...
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Metabolic cooperation in a social Baker’s yeast community. Pictured is a two-day old yeast community that grows as a colony. Different colours indicate cells producing and consuming different metabolites and nutrients.

Social yeast cells prefer to work with close relatives to make our beer, bread & wine

26 Oct 2015
Baker’s yeast cells living together in communities help feed each other, but leave incomers from the same species to die from starvation, according to...
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Low-impact hub generates electrical current from pure plant power

06 Mar 2015
Green wall technology and semi-transparent solar panels have been combined to generate electrical current from a renewable source of energy both day...
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After storm

Metabolism may have started in our early oceans before the origin of life

25 Apr 2014
The chemical reactions behind metabolism – the processes that occur within all living organisms in order to sustain life – may have formed...
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DNA code

Novel genetic mutations cause low metabolic rate and obesity

25 Oct 2013
Researchers believe the gene could be a useful therapeutic target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes
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Brown fat

Scientists identify protein that stimulates brown fat to burn calories

11 May 2012
Protein highlights ‘ideal mechanism’ for development of new therapies to fight obesity.
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