metabolism

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 to...

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...

Researchers believe the gene could be a useful therapeutic target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes

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

Some remarkable organisms are able to withstand almost complete desiccation. How they survive is providing Cambridge researchers with new ideas for...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first...