Giles Yeo (MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit) discusses the origins of lactose intolerance. Imagine a dinner party somewhere in Italy to which, as it turns out, my dad has been invited. […]

Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease, contrary to earlier evidence that people with more HDL-C are […]

We know a lot about food but little about the food choices that affect the nation’s health. Researchers have begun to devise experiments to find out why we choose a […]

Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discusses obesity and the influence of socioeconomic circumstances in shaping food choices. Last month, the UK health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, called childhood obesity […]

The process of ageing begins even before we are born, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge. In a study using rats to model […]

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory – the ability to recall past events – than their peers, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, adding to increasing […]

Children should be given more support to enable them to be more active during the winter, particularly at weekends, say researchers from the University of Cambridge. Their call comes in […]

– Dr. Carla Martins is a group leader at the MRC Cancer Unit. She is the senior author on a recently published paper in Nature. In collaboration with other researchers at the MRC Cancer […]

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, carried out in yeast – […]

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Professor Toni Vidal-Puig, head of the TVPLab at the Metabolic Research Laboratories (University of Cambridge), located at the Wellcome […]