Why do we stop eating? The answer lies deeper in the body than previously thought. An international team of researchers, including scientists from Leipzig University, has now discovered how fatty acids inside cells help regulate appetite – and identified what is believed to be an evolutionary precursor of today’s best-known weight-loss hormones. | more
Why do people die not from the actual trigger, but from an excessive reaction of their own body? Prof. Berend Isermann from the University of Leipzig is investigating exactly this question. In medicine, this phenomenon is known as thrombo-inflammation. Isermann and his team have identified a molecular “switch” that could one day make it controllable. | more
