Professor Roger Cox, Dr Dyan Sellayah and Professor Frances Ashcroft have discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind how the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene promotes obesity. Their findings may have important implications for future therapeutic strategies to combat obesity.
Professor Denis Noble of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, was honoured at the Royal Society event held on Friday 6 March celebrating 350 years of the world's first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions.
The New Yorker reports on an article by a group of researchers from the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience. The group, which is led by Scott Waddell, studies rewards, motivation, and memory in the comparatively simple brain of the fruit fly.
Only 8.2 per cent of human DNA is likely to be doing something important \u2013 is \u2018functional\u2019 \u2013 say researchers from Oxford University.
Computer analysis of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, says lead researcher Dr Christoffer Nell\u00e5ker along Quentin Ferry, a DPhil research student, and Professor Andrew Zisserman of the Department of Engineering Science.
Dr Stephen Goodwin and colleagues at the University of Oxford are step closer to understanding why female Drosophila melangoster fruit flies change their behaviour after mating.
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