Congratulations to Dr Charlotte Boughton of the Hovorka Group who has been chosen to give the Royal College of Physicians’ regional Turner-Warwick Lecture, a new award for 2019. Dr Boughton’s title for the RCP’s Update in Medicine – Cambridge on June 28th will be ‘The artificial pancreas for hospitalised patients with diabetes’. Traditionally, lectures at […]
Weight loss surgery changes the way our bodies sense food
New research published today in Cell Reports helps explain how bariatric surgery changes the way the gut senses food and nutrients. Researchers from the Gribble and Reimann groups show that surgery alters patterns of digestion and absorption lower in the gut triggering production of higher levels of gut hormones, especially glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), which […]
Genetic basis of thinness
In the largest study of its kind to date, Sadaf Farooqi’s team looked at how some people manage to stay thin while others gain weight. With support from Wellcome and the European Research Council, the team recruited 2,000 people who were thin (body mass index (BMI) of less than 18 kg/m2) but healthy into the […]
Obesity associated with genetic conditions that affect wiring of brain centres controlling weight
In a recent paper published in Cell, Dr Agatha van der Klaauw and colleagues in Professor Sadaf Farooqi’s team describe the role of a group of neural guidance molecules, the Semaphorins in the development of hypothalamic brain circuits that regulate body weight. The team characterised rare genetic variants affecting the function of multiple genes encoding […]
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