Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to ...

Researchers discovered that the liver hormone FGF21 signals hindbrain neurons to control appetite and metabolism during ...

Researchers have found that the hormone FGF21 reversed obesity in mice by acting on a newly identified brain circuit in the hindbrain. Unlike GLP-1 drugs, which mainly reduce appetite, FGF21 appears ...

Knowing the difference between hunger and appetite, and understanding the sensory cues behind them, can help us make better decisions about what we eat ...

A new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center reveals that the hormone FGF21 acts on specific hindbrain neurons to regulate food intake, energy expenditure, and adaptation to ...

Discovered using AI, a naturally occurring molecule appears to act directly in the brain’s appetite center. Scientists hope ...

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly. Georgia Tech physicists are ...

A new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center reveals that the liver hormone FGF21 directly targets specific hindbrain neurons to regulate food intake and energy use during protein ...

Scientists in Australia say they have identified a previously unseen way the body controls stored sugar.

WHEN tot Nancy Dakin, suddenly began to persistently vomit at 12-months-old, her parents immediately knew something was ...

Neuronal specification, expansion and differentiation are tightly regulated by the concerted actions of transcription and chromatin modifying factors that are recruited to regulatory elements in the ...