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Coming up, the gene that turns Labrador's into gluttons.

Spring is arriving earlier, but the signs are that migratory birds are not keeping up, and we hear

from the Cambridge team who found the oldest known dead galaxy from just a few hundred million

years after the universe first began.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists. Up first this week anyone with a Labrador myself included will probably describe

their dog using just one word.

Greedy.

The breed is notorious for being a bottomless pit,

but now science can write them a sick note,

excusing their gluttony, because Cambridge researchers have found that a genetic change

or mutation in a gene called POM C which is carried by many members of the breed actually

makes them hungrier.

It also makes them burn 25% fewer calories, so they're more

likely to put on weight in the first place, despite compensatory exercise. To find out more,

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