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The study analysed effects of eating versus fasting on gene expression in adipose (fat) tissue in response to exercise. 

Increasing activity is one of the most important ways to improve health in our increasingly sedentary population, so the researchers suggest this could be a key benefit.

The findings could be used to understand how other non-coding RNAs function and to develop potential gene therapies to treat cancer, the researchers said.

Ceratopsia was a group of plant-eating horned dinosaurs and the fossil studied by Longrich comes from a smaller cousin of the better known Triceratops, the leptoceratopsids.

Both sucrose - in the form of table sugar - and glucose are important carbohydrates, often referred to as simple sugars.