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Warwick Medical School researchers will lead an ERC Synergy project to uncover the rules of the road for the longest cells in the human body.

Recent work from Falk Schneider and his team reveals an unexpected challenge in combining fluorescent protein reporters with label-free metabolic imaging. The study shows that many commonly used fluorescent proteins, including green, yellow, and red variants, produce fluorescence that overlaps with NADH signals and can be misinterpreted as changes in cellular metabolism. By establishing a pipeline to assess this interference, the work provides practical guidance for selecting compatible fluorescent reporters and designing more reliable experiments for metabolic imaging in context of other labelled structures.

Dr Thomas Barber has published a new book, Obesity: Life Beyond the GLP-1 Injection, which aims to challenge common misconceptions about obesity and separate scientific evidence from the growing amount of misinformation surrounding weight management and fad diets.

Each chapter takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that extends well beyond dietary change alone, joining together the individual pieces of obesity prevention and management, from appetite physiology and the gut microbiota to muscle health, sleep, fibre intake, and the broader environmental drivers of weight gain.

The University of Warwick has been awarded approximately £1.3 million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to install two advanced imaging platforms, following a double success in the funder’s ALERT25 call.

The new equipment will give researchers across Warwick Medical School, the School of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics the tools to observe biology as it happens, at the level of individual cells and the molecules within them.