Combined behavioural, circuit-level and cellular approaches are used to demonstrate how hypothalamic neurons integrate hunger and oestrous state to drive a switch in how female mice interact with pups...

Obesity has been described by the WHO as the largest health threat facing mankind. More than 55% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom occur in women who are overweight or living with obesity. Obesity ...

The brain consumes a large amount of glucose to fuel its high metabolic demands. Understanding brain glucose metabolism is critical for understanding the brain’s normal physiology and the pathological...

The authors describe a sensory circuit involving the medial septum (MS), where MS glutamatergic neurons integrate food odours to prime satiety and regulate nutrient intake.

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Nature - Iron-deficient conditions in pregnant mice can cause XY mouse embryos to develop female rather than male genitalia, revealing that iron metabolism has a role in determining male sex in mice.

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Neurons involved in forming memories of a cold environment communicate with the part of the brain that regulates metabolic responses to cold stress.

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Neurovascular unit formation is mediated by Ago2-dependent repression of PTEN in excitatory neurons.

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Shen et al. revealed a conserved role of Mettl14/Ythdc1-dependent m6A signaling in arcuate nucleus neurogenesis of feeding-related neurons in mice and human organoids. Furthermore, deletion of Mettl14...

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Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Paired transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling are used to examine the developmental trajectories of neuronal populations in the hypothalamic preoptic region, including cell types with ke...