The Brunet lab in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University (https://web.stanford.edu/group/brunet/) is seeking an independent and motivated.....

Trophoblast cells line the surface of placental villi, facilitating the exchange of nutrients, gases, and wastes between the maternal and fetal circulations. The fusion of cytotrophoblast (CTB) cells into the surrounding multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast (STB), is accompanied by a shift in cellular …

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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 ...

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...

Non-nutritive sensory components of high-fat diet, such as bacon flavour, are sufficient to impair metabolic health in offspring in mice.

Abstract figure legend Maternal obesity induces systemic inflammation and high insulin and leptin levels, potentially promoting hepcidin release into circulation and thus iron sequestration in specif....

Aims/hypothesis There is no clear consensus regarding accurate risk stratification in early pregnancy for later developing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Therefore, this study aims to evaluate t...

Susan Ozanne and colleagues argue that strategies are urgently needed to translate knowledge about how maternal nutrition affects children’s long term health into improved population health outcomes ...

The rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes among migrant populations from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) living in high-income countries (HICs) presents a significant public health challenge. ...

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Blastoids are stem cell-derived structures that mimic natural blastocysts by incorporating all three lineages: trophectoderm, epiblast, and primitive endoderm. However, current methods often yield inc...

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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The Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) has announced its newly elected biomedical and health scientists to its prestigious Fellowship, and we are delighted that Professor Frank Reimann from the IMS-MRL...

Primary cilia are hair-like sensory organelles that project from the cell bodies of most cell types, including appetite-regulatory hypothalamic neurons where they likely help sense metabolic factors t...