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How excessive fat tissue affects our blood vessels

New insights into vascular health in obesity

30-Jun-2025 - Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged – and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in the body. This is the finding of a research team from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), working ...

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How obesity also affects the next generation

Study reveals why children of obese mothers are more likely to develop metabolic disorders

24-Jun-2025 - Children born to obese mothers are at higher risk of developing metabolic disorders, even if they follow a healthy diet themselves. A new study from the University of Bonn offers an explanation for this phenomenon. In obese mice, certain cells in the embryo’s liver are reprogrammed during ...

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Sniffing out hunger: a nose-to-brain connection linked to appetite

Nerve cells with a direct connection from the olfactory bulb trigger a feeling of fullness

18-Jun-2025 - No more hunger after cooking? A newly identified network of nerve cells is responsible, a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has discovered in mice. They discovered a direct connection from the nose to a group of nerve cells in the brain that are activated by the ...

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Newly identified group of nerve cells in the brain regulates bodyweight

Potential for novel obesity treatments

30-May-2025 - Obesity is a global health problem that affects many people. In recent years, very promising anti-obesity drugs have been developed. Despite these successes, there are patients who do not respond to these drugs or suffer from side effects. Therefore, there is still an unmet need for therapies. ...

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Millions for RNA therapies from the “dark genome”

Swiss biotech start-up develops precision drugs with long non-coding RNA

15-May-2025 - HAYA Therapeutics, SA, a biotechnology company pioneering precision RNA-guided regulatory genome targeting therapeutics that reprogram disease-driving cell states for rare, common, chronic and age-related diseases, announced that the company has raised $65 million in Series A funding. The ...

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How does the immune system age?

Research team shows very precise and comprehensive correlation between immune profiles and age, gender, smoking, obesity and diseases

09-Apr-2025 - Why are older people more susceptible to infections than younger people? Why do vaccinations sometimes have less of an effect on them? In order to better understand the mechanisms of the ageing immune system, the RESIST-Senior Individuals Cohort was set up as part of the Cluster of Excellence ...

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Adrenomedullin causes diabetes in overweight people

The hormone triggers insulin resistance in blood vessel endothelium in obesity

13-Feb-2025 - A large proportion of the approximately six million patients in Germany suffering from type 2 diabetes are overweight. The effect of insulin is impaired in these patients. The cause of this insulin resistance has been sought primarily in metabolically active organs for a long time. Researchers at ...

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Memory systems in the brain drive food cravings that could influence body weight

New findings open new possibilities for addressing overeating and obesity

20-Jan-2025 - Can memory influence what and how much we eat? A groundbreaking Monell Chemical Senses Center study, which links food memory to overeating, answered that question with a resounding “Yes.” Led by Monell Associate Member Guillaume de Lartigue, PhD, the research team identified, for the first time, ...

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Cause of the yo-yo effect deciphered

Fat cells store memories of obesity in their cell nucleus

20-Nov-2024 - Anyone who has ever tried to get rid of a few extra kilos knows the frustration: the weight drops initially, only to be back within a matter of weeks – the yo-yo effect has struck. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now been able to show that this is all down to epigenetics. Epigenetics is the part ...

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Medtech start-up is developing a novel obesity therapy

"We help people lose weight. Without surgery, without implants, without lifelong medication"

19-Nov-2024 - The German medical technology start-up Sedivention has received €800,000 in pre-seed funding from HTGF, one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe. The Straßlach-based company is developing a medical device that enables a one-time, interventional, and minimally ...

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