In a paper published this month in Diabetes, researchers have shown that anti-insulin receptor monoclonal antibodies can improve glycaemia in a novel mouse model of human insulin receptoropathy. Mutations of the insulin receptor can cause severe insulin resistance and early diabetes, usually resulting in death in childhood. To date there has been no way to […]
Nadia Schoenmakers honoured for research on congenital hypothyroidism
Congratulations to Dr Nadia Schoenmakers who gave the 2020 Van Meter Award lecture on 12 September during the first ever virtual meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA). The award, established in 1930, recognizes outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland or related subjects and is given each year to an investigator no more […]
Disruptions in the body’s normal metabolism caused by obesity may exacerbate COVID-19
Explanations around ‘heavy chests’ and upper airways narrowed by fat just don’t cut it, – we have to look closely into the metabolic effects associated with obesity. Only then will we possibly find paths to interventions that can really be protective. A recent interview with IMS-MRL and MRC-MDU Director, Prof Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, on the […]
Why some women don’t need pain relief during childbirth
In a study published this week in the journal Cell Reports, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, have found that women who do not need pain relief during childbirth may be carriers of a key genetic variant that acts a natural epidural. Childbirth is widely recognised as a painful experience. However, every […]
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