Our 6th most popular Review from 2021 is 'Lipid and glucose metabolism in white adipocytes: pathways, dysfunction and therapeutics', by Dominique Langin and colleagues (£) go.nature.com/2NuT1SF

With today’s launch of Altos Labs, we celebrate this community of leading scientists, clinicians, and industry leaders. We are excited to pursue cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health with the goal to reverse disease. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Thank you Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Carver College of Medicine Michael welsh for organizing the graduate student best paper competition! My student Mark @MarkLi39768005 did his first chalk talk!👍

Congratulations to Zeyuan Zhang who passed his thesis in Ling Yang's lab on Friday, March 25th! Zeyuan will be working as a scientist at Altos Labs in California to study aging. lingyangLab

Congratulations to Dr. Ling Yang for being selected as an inaugural investigator in the Stead Family Scholars Program! lingyangLab Carver College of Medicine

The Future of Aging is an excellent collection of academic essays on aging curated by Greg Fahy et al., and is probably my favorite reference for fundamental research into the mechanisms of aging. Amazingly, the entire book is freely available online: sciencevsaging.org/sites/sciencev…

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After an all day imaging session on the confocal

We have been selected as one of John Carroll' 11 most promising startups in the biotech industry. We're thrilled to have been able to bring together a fantastic team to advance our shared mission and are excited to see what the future holds endpts.com/the-endpoints-…

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I met these amazing students 5 years ago when I started at University of Iowa. Today, I got to see them walk across the stage as doctors. 😭 Grateful to share this moment with the UIowa - Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology PhDs & their mentors. 💛 Congratulations to Dr. Su, Dr. Li, Dr. Antiguas, Dr. Liu & Dr. Armstrong! 🙌🏽

Congrats to Dr. Ling Yang for being selected to be a part of the CCOM's Wall of Scholarship. The wall highlights papers from our faculty that are distinguished by being cited over 1,000 times by at least two of three academic citation indices.

Grateful for supporting by an exceptional team on our study of pituitary gland in obesity: Gökhan Hotamisligil Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, Wen-Xing Ding Wen-Xing Ding, Qingwen Qian, Mark Li Mark Li, Zeyuan Zhang Zeyuan Zhang, Huojun Cao, Andy Norris, Kamal Rahmouni nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

New! Online now: Obesity disrupts the pituitary-hepatic UPR communication leading to NAFLD progression dlvr.it/T72YwL

A ranking of commonly used #MASLD models, based on their proximity to human MASLD, Nature Metabolism nature.com/articles/s4225…

Today in nature, we share our latest paper. We developed an algorithm to predict novel peptides cleaved by proconvertases across all human tissues. Using this method, we identified BRP, a brain-derived anti-obesity peptide. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Sharing our latest review on peptide hormones by Laetitia Coassolo Laetitia Voilquin-Coassolo and Amanda Wiggenhorn Amanda Wiggenhorn in Trends in Biochemical Sciences Trends in Biochemical Sciences Stanford Pathology Free full text: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Discovery of peptides as key regulators of metabolic and cardiovascular crosstalk. Check out this review in Cell Reports by SvenssonLab Katrin J. Svensson & Zeyuan Zhang #ENDO2025 hubs.li/Q03wtQDH0