Personalised nutrition is at its early stages but shows the potential of improving the health of the general population, at a time when diabetes and obesity are becoming worldwide epidemics. However, it will need to be ...

Both reference genomes assembled for individual species and large, publicly maintained sets of resequenced genomes are of immense value to researchers. The former represent important milestones for research involving the ...

Background: Maternal obesity is a risk factor for gestational diabetes and other adverse pregnancy outcomes, but the body fat distribution may be a more important risk factor than body mass index. Pregnancy is an insulin ...