A new Trinity study highlights that fitness may be a more important clinical endpoint for improvement in patients with fatty liver disease during exercise trials, rather than weight loss. The findings have been published in the medical journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Can obesity define health? It is a question for much debate. Still, obesity is generally classified into metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) and an unhealthy version of obesity. Korean scientists have now identified the protein that induces benign obesity.

Led by Dr. Manoj Kumar Bhat, a team of Indian researchers from the National Centre for Cell Science conducted studies on laboratory-bred mice to determine if obesity resulting from leptin deficiency could have any influence on cancer. The study provided valuable insights into the molecular connections underlying the relationship of diet-induced and genetics-associated obesity with colon cancer.

MIT engineers have designed a light-sensitive hydrogel which can be incorporated in medical devices and then be broken down inside the body when exposed to light. This material has the potential to eliminate endoscopic surgeries required to remove gastrointestinal devices.

Engineered ingestible molecular traps created from mesoporous silica particles (MSPs) introduced to the gut can have an effect on food efficiency and metabolic risk factors. The results from studies on mice, published in Nanomedicine, demonstrate the potential to reduce the energy uptake into the body and could lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes

A new study from King’s has found that people who drank red wine had an increased gut microbiota diversity compared to non-red wine drinkers as well as an association with lower levels of obesity and 'bad' cholesterol.

Swedish scientists have developed datasets that are able to map the three-dimensional distribution and volume of the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. The visual and quantitative data of this development could become a valuable reference resource for diabetes researchers. The Umeå University researchers are publishing these datasets in the Nature Research journal Scientific Data.

An international research led by the UGR shows that 90 % of store and supermarket receipts are made of thermal paper containing bisphenol A (BPA). BPA is a well‑known endocrine disruptor that alters hormonal balance in people exposed to it, and it leads to hormonal diseases such as genitourinary malformations, infertility, obesity and cancer in hormone‑dependent organs.