obesity

A high-fat diet induced changes to the animals’ vaginal microbiomes that boosted survival after exposure to the virus.

Epigenetic events, such as methylation, during early brain development in mice occur in genomic regions associated with BMI in humans, according to a new study.

Gut microbiome–based solutions hold promise for addressing obesity, but are they overhyped?

The cells signal to the brain how hydrating particular beverages are, but it’s not yet clear whether they play a similar role in humans.

Obese mice that exercised while pregnant gave birth to pups that grew up free of the metabolic issues present in the adult young of sedentary obese mothers—possibly by staving off epigenetic changes to a key metabolic gene.

Many major biopharmaceutical companies are developing or acquiring drugs that target the NLRP3 inflammasome, a large intracellular complex that researchers say can spark inflammation and stoke diseases of lifestyle and aging.

Altered gut microbiome composition in obese mice and human patients is linked with severity of disease after bone marrow transplantation, a study found.

Paul Cohen of the Rockefeller University describes his study of thousands of people, finding that the energy-burning tissue is tied to a lower risk of for several diseases, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

The most common preexisting conditions among the patients were diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.

A video chronicles the course of disease research and prompts questions about where scientists may focus their studies in the future.

Altering DNA methylation in a particular area of the hypothalamus halved the animals’ voluntary exercise as adults.

Physical activity, independent of diet, shifts the composition of bacteria in the intestines, spurring researchers to search for species that might provide benefits akin to working out.

The Purdue University nutrition researcher delves into the details of how fat tissue affects tumors.

Developing computational tools to analyze the reams of microbial sequencing data his lab generates, the UC San Diego microbiologist is a pioneer of microbiome research.

The tool weighs millions of variants to determine how susceptible a person is to becoming obese.

Researchers disentangle how adipocytes communicate with prostate tumors in mice.

Countries with populations whose average adult height grew late last century are more likely to have high rates of babies delivered surgically.

The variants associated with the mood disorder included those without metabolic risks, suggesting it is the psychological effects of obesity at play.