Sex differences exist in the regulation of energy homeostasis, the organism’s mechanism to keep a stable body weight. Current studies indicate for instance that female mammals, including humans, are better protected against metabolic diseases during…

Type 2 diabetes disease progression and successful intervention depend on individual’s unique clinical, genetic, genomic, and environmental information partly represented by gene expression patterns. An international team of researchers around…

Timo Müller and his team have been working for many years on the development of new therapeutic options for diabetes and obesity. Among other things, they decoded a brain receptor that plays a crucial role in the regulation of body weight and food…