Archive: 01/07/2016
How the 'Biggest Loser' permanently ruins participants' metabolism
The Biggest Loser has received a healthy dose of backlash from the medical community over recent years; all of it well deserved.
Jul 1, 2016
New method provides better information on gene expression
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) have devised a new high-resolution method for studying which genes are active in a tissue. The method can be used on all types of tissue and ...
Jul 1, 2016
Time to remove barriers that stop girls being more active
Adolescent girls are missing out on opportunities to be as physically active as boys and a Melbourne researcher says that schools and sporting clubs are the place to start to change this inequity.
Jul 1, 2016