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How CBMR uses data science in metabolic research

Bioinformatician Christian Grønbæk works with the Single-Cell Omics Platform at CBMR. In this video…

Unhappy fat: New clues on how obesity drives metabolic dysfunction

Insulin resistance can cause white fat cells to become dysfunctional by altering its genetic…

The promise of RUCILP

A pioneering microbiome researcher embarks on his swansong to explore his “most exciting scientific breakthrough ever"

Professor Oluf Borbye Pedersen was already an accomplished and internationally recognized researche…

New genetic calculator predicts if exercise can lower your risk of obesity

Around one-in-five Danes, who have a high genetic risk of developing obesity, are more likely to…

"I wanted to do something that could really scale ... beyond helping one patient at a time"

Pascal Timshel joined Intomics in 2019, after completing his Ph.D degree in bioinformatics at CBMR.…

Media & Publications

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2021

CBMR publications and media appearances in October 2021

A breakdown in communication – mitochondria of diabetic patients can’t keep time

Muscle cells in patients with type 2 diabetes have a disrupted biological clock discover scientists…

Ruth Loos elected to the EASD Board of Directors

CBMR Vice Executive Director Ruth Loos has been elected to the Board of Directors of the European…

Winter-swimming Scandinavian men can teach us how the body adapts to extreme heat and cold

Winter-swimming men, who combine cold-water immersion with hot sauna, burn more calories during…

“I appreciate having a deeper understanding of how the body works.”

Olivia Sveidahl Johansen is a Danish PhD student in the Gerhart-Hines group at CBMR. She joined the…

Science communication

'The World is in You' opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

What are we doing to the world? It is arguably the leading question of our time. Life in the…

Media & Publications

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2021

CBMR publications and media appearances in September 2021

Take a tour of the Single-Cell Omics Platform

The Single-Cell Omics Platform (SCOP) provides high-throughput single-cell and sequencing…

Media & Publications

CBMR publications and media appearances in July & August 2021

CBMR publications and media appearances in July & August 2021

A Cellular Call for Help

When succinate is released by cells in distress it activates nearby white blood cells, and…

Exercise improves health through changes on DNA

Six weeks of physical exercise led to changes in the epigenetic information of skeletal muscle cell…

Where are they now?

From CBMR to Intomics: Julia Villarroel

Julia Villarroel is a bioinformatics scientist at Intomics, a Danish company that uses insights fro…

"The gut microbiome is a very important mediator of the environment we live in"

Yong Fan started a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Promoting Microbiome Research when he joined…

Research in Molecular Metabolism

Mice with low NAD+ levels die young – and scientists now know why

With low levels of the molecule NAD+, skeletal muscle cells are unable to control the concentration…

CBMR joins €2M Horizon2020 project to help steer the future of human microbiome research

Microbiome research holds potential for personalized and preventive nutrition and medicine, but is…