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Research explores how a father’s diet could shape the health of his offspring

A mice study suggests a father’s diet may shape the anxiety of his sons and the metabolic health of his daughters before they are even conceived.

Sperm count can double with sustained weight loss

Men all over the world are suffering from deteriorating semen quality – often referred to as an outright fertility crisis. But there may now be good news for some of the men who are experiencing problems. In a new…

Exercise improves health through changes on DNA

Six weeks of physical exercise led to changes in the epigenetic information of skeletal muscle cells in young men. These changes took place in areas of the genome that have been linked to disease.

Where are they now?

From CBMR to Intomics: Julia Villarroel

Julia Villarroel is a bioinformatics scientist at Intomics, a Danish company that uses insights from big biomedical data to help pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs.

New genetic links to diabetes and obesity discovered by eavesdropping on DNA’s long-distance communication

Watch the video that shows how new methods that unravel DNA's dynamic and 3D behaviour has helped CBMR scientists discover new genes linked to obesity and diabetes.

Large Grant for Research into Innovative Way of Fighting Severe Overweight

Romain Barrès, who researches epigenetics within metabolism, has received the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s prestigious Challenge Programme of DKK 60 million