ObesityVolume 28, Issue S1 Review First published: 23 July 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22807 Giulia Fleury, Anayanci Masís‐Vargas, Andries Kalsbeek Abstract Lately, the incidence of overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes has shown a staggering increase. To prevent and treat these conditions, one must look at their etiology. As life on earth has evolved under the conditions of...Read More

Chukuka Samuel Enwemeka, Violet Vakunseh Bumah, Daniela Santos Masson-Meyers,Light as a potential treatment for pandemic coronavirus infections: A perspective,Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Volume 207, 2020, 111891,ISSN 1011-1344,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2020.111891.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1011134420303419) Abstract The recent outbreak of COVID-19, which continues to ravage communities with high death tolls and untold psychosocial and catastrophic economic consequences, is a vivid...Read More

Charoenngam, N.; Holick, M.F. Immunologic Effects of Vitamin D on Human Health and Disease. Nutrients 2020, 12, 2097. Abstract Vitamin D is responsible for regulation of calcium and phosphate metabolism and maintaining a healthy mineralized skeleton. It is also known as an immunomodulatory hormone. Experimental studies have shown that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, the active form of vitamin D, exerts...Read More

ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Front. Microbiol., 19 June 2020 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01112 It is well known that many organisms can perceive the magnetic field (MF), including the geomagnetic field, but how to feel MF is unclear. Recently, a study has claimed that a biological compass, namely a complex of the magnetic receptor (MagR) and blue light (BL) receptor...Read More

University of Groningen This video paints the life and scientific contributions of Professor Serge Daan (1940-2018). Daan was an inspiring biologist with a broad interest in science. He started as professor at the University of Groningen in 1975. His publications were cited over 17,000 times and include seminal work in chronobiology, sleep research, psychiatry, physiology,...Read More

By Robert Sanders, Media relations| NOVEMBER 25, 2019 See the image in the article: An intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC) as it would appear if you looked at a mouse’s retina through the pupil. The white arrows point to the many different types of cells it networks with: other subtypes of ipRGC cell (red, blue and...Read More

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1579-3 Abstract Group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) are major regulators of inflammation, infection, microbiota composition and metabolism1. ILC3s and neuronal cells have been shown to interact at discrete mucosal locations to steer mucosal defence2,3. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether neuroimmune circuits operate at an organismal level, integrating extrinsic environmental signals to orchestrate ILC3 responses....Read More

The Circadian Clock, Transcriptional Feedback and the Regulation of Gene Expression. The 2017 Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine were held on 7 December at the Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet.Read More