A study from Lisa Ronan (Psychiatry) and Paul Fletcher (Department of Psychiatry and IMS-MRL) has uncovered distinct differences in brain structure in obese children compared to those of healthy weight. The study, published in Cerebral Cortex, aimed to determine whether differences in brain structure mediate the relationship between executive function and childhood obesity. Researchers analysed […]
A turbulent drama happening at a cellular scale
The winning image from this year’s Reflections of Research, an annual competition run by the British Heart Foundation, was taken in the IMS-MRL imaging core on a Perkin Elmer Opera Phenix High Content Screening System (confocal microscope). ‘A Sea of Cells’ is a close-up of smooth muscle cells that surround blood vessels in mice. The cells, […]
Florian Merkle wins NYSCF prize
Congratulations to Florian Merkle who has been named a Robertson Stem Cell Investigator – one of six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists welcomed by the New York Stem Cell Foundation into the NYSCF Investigator Program. The programme fosters and encourages promising early career scientists whose cutting-edge research holds the potential to […]
Slowing down fat production could combat harmful inflammation in obesity
Slowing down how quickly the body makes a specific type of fat could help to combat type 2 diabetes, according to new research published online in the journal eLife. A team of researchers, led by Dr Kasparas Petkevicius, Dr Samuel Virtue and Professor Toni Vidal-Puig of the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, has made the […]
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