Merck Reiterates Confidence in Returning to Sustainable Growth

Tailwind thanks to robust global growth trends in all three business sectors

18-Oct-2024 - Merck is looking confidently toward the future. At the Capital Markets Day, the company shared its expectation of profitable and financially strong growth in the coming years. After the transitional year of 2023, Merck considers the medium-term growth opportunities in its markets to be intact. ...

New Regulator of Glucose Transport in Adipose Tissue Discovered

These findings could help to develop new therapeutic approaches for treating type 2 diabetes and obesity

23-Sep-2024 - The role of the adapter protein Picalm in the development of Alzheimer's disease is well known. Now, researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), ETH Zurich, and the University of Cambridge have, for the first ...

Swiss biotechnology startup HAYA Therapeutics announces collaboration with Lilly

Discovery of novel regulatory genomic targets for obesity and related metabolic conditions using proprietary RNA platform

09-Sep-2024 - HAYA Therapeutics, SA, a biotechnology company pioneering precision RNA-guided regulatory genome targeting therapeutics for chronic diseases, announced a multi-year agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to apply HAYA’s advanced RNA-guided regulatory genome platform to support preclinical drug ...

Simple diagnostics for common diseases

With the help of a single infrared light measurement and machine learning, metabolic disorders and high blood pressure, among other things, can be detected

12-Aug-2024 - Some common diseases could be easier and quicker to diagnose in the future than they have been to date. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum München has demonstrated in a representative study that infrared ...

Fibre against pounds: Resistant starch supports weight loss

“Our study will provide a practical approach to treat obesity and its related metabolic disorders by resistant starch”

04-Mar-2024 - A diet based on resistant starch promotes a favorable composition of the gut microbiome in obese people. This leads to weight reduction and measurable positive health outcomes such as improved insulin sensitivity. These were the findings of an international research team led by Professor Weiping ...

Resalis Therapeutics raises €10m Series A to treat obesity

“With RES-010 we aim to provide a therapeutic that precisely reduces fat mass in obesity with the potential to extend the durability of existing therapies”

17-Jan-2024 - Resalis Therapeutics announced the closing of a €10 million ($11 million) Series A financing round led by Sunstone Life Science Ventures with participation from existing investors including Claris Ventures and angel investors. The proceeds will be used to initiate and complete the first-in-human ...

How internal clocks control fat metabolism

Modern lifestyle can disrupt "cycle of lipids"

13-Sep-2023 - In the fruit fly Drosophila, circadian clocks also control fat metabolism. This is shown in a new study by a research team at the University of Würzburg. The findings could also be relevant for humans. Much is known about how modern human lifestyles contribute to triggering metabolic disorders ...

Everything in balance? How a molecular switch controls lipid metabolism

Overactive or absent protein stops energy flow

06-Jul-2023 - Our body’s fat metabolism plays a vital role in energy production in our body. A research team at the University of Basel, has discovered a molecular switch that regulates lipid metabolism in our cells. This switch controls the storage or conversion of lipids into energy. All organisms need ...

Chemicals in plastic may contribute to weight gain

Plastic consumer products contain chemicals that may promote the development of overweight and obesity

28-Jan-2022 - It may sound strange, but chemicals in plastic may make the bathroom scale a less pleasant place to visit. Every day, we come into contact with plastic products. A lot of plastic is found in food packaging. Plastic packaging is common for practical reasons, because it is cheap and because it can ...

Genetic disease healed using genome editing

10-Oct-2018 - A team of researchers from ETH Zurich and the University Children’s Hospital Zurich applied a newly developed editing tool to target and correct genetic mutations. By doing so, the researchers healed mice suffering from a genetic metabolic disorder that also affects humans. Parents of newborns ...