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Finding the ‘genetic signposts’ of disease

01 September 2007

One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to £9 million funding from the Wellcome Trust. ̽»¨Ö±²¥ground-breaking results of this study were published in June this year.

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Why are we so fat?

01 April 2007

For some people, the urge to eat is uncontrollable. Cambridge scientists have taken us a step closer to understanding the causes of obesity by studying a group of patients for whom overeating is an everyday event.

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