Scientists have discovered a distinct class of neurons or brain cells that may control eating behaviours. Consuming fatty foods alters the activity of these neurons in mice, essentially “releasing the
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A new study published on 24 June in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal, suggests that drinking coffee may stimulate “brown fat”, the type of fat associated with calorie-burning as opposed
A new paper published on 24 June in Nature Medicine pinpoints changes in the gut microbiome — the billions of bacteria that live in the human gut — associated with
Eating yoghurt could reduce the risk of pre-cancerous growths, called adenomas, that precede the development of bowel cancer in men, according to a new study published on 17 June in
Scientists have discovered a way to convert type A blood to ‘universal’, according to a new paper published on 10 June in Nature Microbiology (1). Two enzymes originally produced by
A new study published on 7 June in Science contradicts the prevailing idea that all genes in the human body are identical copies of each other (1). Instead, even ‘normal’
Although it may seem like some athletes have super-human endurance, a new study published on 5 June in Science Advances suggests everyone reaches the same metabolic limit or maximum possible
In a new study published on 3 June in Genome Biology, Gunasekara and colleagues present a new map of epigenetic variation in humans. The new information will potentially allow scientists
To date, the impacts of climate change on health have been relatively neglected in EU policy. Now, a landmark study by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) has raised
A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Rikin Institute in Japan and Stanford University in the US have seemingly uncovered a cheap and effective way to grow