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Largest ever genetic study of age of puberty in girls shows links with weight gain: Genes can indirectly influence the age at which girls have their first period by accelerating weight gain in childhood…

17 months ago cam.ac.uk genetics

Scientists have identified a gene which, when missing or impaired, can cause obesity, behavioural problems and, in mothers, postnatal depression

17 months ago cam.ac.uk medicine

Discovery of new white blood cell function

18 months ago cam.ac.uk health

Antarctic ice shelves hold twice as much meltwater as previously thought and this is poorly accounted for in regional climate models

17 months ago cam.ac.uk antarctica environment

Rainforest wildlife under threat as below-canopy temperatures rise

18 months ago cam.ac.uk environment

Scientists have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease

18 months ago cam.ac.uk disease genetics health

How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

18 months ago cam.ac.uk

Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials, similar to charcoal, that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air

18 months ago cam.ac.uk

Researchers have discovered a 550-million-year-old sea sponge from the “lost years” and proposed that the earliest sea sponges had not yet developed mineral skeletons, offering new parameters to the search for the missing fossils

18 months ago cam.ac.uk paleontology

Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin

19 months ago cam.ac.uk engineering