Maintenance of energy homeostasis, i.e. the balance between caloric intake and energy expenditure, has to be maintained in a tight range to ensure metabolic homeostasis, health, and survival of any organism.
Sophie Steculorum, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, was awarded with the Helmholtz Young Investigator in Diabetes (HeIDi) Award recognizing her outstanding achievements in the field.
The gut and the brain communicate with each other in order to adapt satiety and blood sugar levels during food consumption. The vagus nerve is an important communicator between these two organs. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...
The nerve cells, also called neurons, in our brain control all the basic processes of our body. For this reason, there are different types of neurons distributed over specific regions of the brain. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...
Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia can develop in the course of the disease aggressive lymphoma. The research groups led by Prof. Dr. Christian Pallasch from the University Hospital in Cologne and Dr. Thomas Wunderlich from the Max Planck ...
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and affects at least 50 million people worldwide. The progressive death of nerve cells is associated with the deposition of protein aggregations known as amyloid plaques. With increasing age ...
High-calorie, energy-dense foods are constantly available in our modern society. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne have discovered that a group of nerve cells in the brains of mice promotes the consumption of ...