Hypothalamic Neuroscience and Neuroendocrinology Australasia News Feed

Registration is open for HNNA 2019

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Registration is now open for HNNA 2019.

The HNNA Meeting will be held in Queenstown NZ this year, September 1-2, as part of Queenstown Research Week.

As usual, registration for this meeting is FREE for members. However to take advantage of this – you can’t register through the usual Queenstown Research Week page – but rather must use the following link:

https://dinamics.eventsair.com/queenstown-research-week-2019/neuroscience

NZ scientists find missing piece to infertility puzzle

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Members of the Centre of Neuroendocrinology have made some exciting discoveries into the causes of infertility and published their findings in leading journals. The New Zealand Herald discusses these findings in the link below:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12035110

Your body wants to be fat. Science wants to change its mind

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Australian Neuroscientists have uncovered the potential for new weight-loss drugs after a discovering a chemical in your brain, that when switched on, can help with fat-burning and another chemical signal from your gut, that controls hunger, can be switched off.

The Sydney Morning Herald link can be found here: https://www.smh.com.au/national/your-body-wants-to-be-fat-science-wants-to-change-its-mind-20180214-p4z0an.html