Form of severe malnutrition linked to DNA modification
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A group led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has identified significant differences at ...
Tag: Metabolism/Metabolic Diseases
Type 1 Diabetes: New starting point to delay autoimmune response
Credit: Carolin Daniel, Helmholtz Zentrum München Regulatory T cells (Tregs)* prevent excessive immune reactions in healthy people. In the development ...
Eating too much — not exercising too little — may be at core of weight gain, study finds
Findings about children's calorie expenditure challenge conventional wisdom and may provide clues for reversing global trends in obesity, Baylor University ...
Good aerobic fitness doesn’t protect children against type 2 diabetes, staying active does
Credit: Eero Haapala Good aerobic fitness does not protect children against obesity-induced insulin resistance, which is a key risk factor ...
New review study shows that egg-industry-funded research downplays danger of cholesterol
Researchers explain how faulty, industry-funded studies can harm public healthCredit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine WASHINGTON--Controversial headlines claiming that eggs ...
Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease
UMass Amherst scientist expanding chemical exposure research to include humansCredit: UMass Amherst Studies have shown that perinatal exposure of rats ...
JDRF awards 23 training grants to advance type 1 diabetes research
Nonprofit funding to accelerate laboratory and clinical research to treat, prevent and drive cures for type 1 diabetesCredit: JDRF NEW ...
New research aims to improve oral delivery of insulin
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT - Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough ...
‘Football as Medicine’
Prescribing football for global health promotionCredit: Bo Kousgaard The new book "Football as Medicine - Prescribing Football for Global Health ...
New findings on satiety signaling from intestine
Credit: Photo by University of Gothenburg A previously unknown mechanism that suppresses satiety signals from the small intestine is the ...
Secret behind diabetes drug’s benefits revealed
Metformin shows benefits on aging and a number of diverse diseasesCredit: Photo courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, ON (December 9, 2019) ...
Increasing food intake by swapping mitochondrial genomes
Credit: Maria Litovchenko & Roel Bevers (EPFL) Many of the characteristics that make people so different from each other, are ...
Exercise yields some cardiovascular benefits in children with excess weight
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Eight months of daily, afterschool physical activity in previously inactive 8- to 11-year-olds ...
The next step in organ transplants: New startup takes aim at reperfusion injury
Charleston, SC-based Lydex Pharmaceuticals has received a small business technology transfer grant from the NIH to investigate and develop compounds ...
Why people buy, trade, donate medications on the black market
'Seeing others suffer is too stressful'Credit: Charlie Ehlert, University of Utah Health Altruism and a lack of access and affordability ...
Weight for it: Time-restricted eating benefits those at risk for diabetes, heart disease
Pilot study finds limiting food consumption to a 10-hour window each day translated into lost pounds, lower blood pressure and ...
Diabetes drug has unexpected, broad implications for healthy aging
Scientists discover multiple mechanisms at work in widely-used diabetes drug metforminCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 3, 2019) Metformin is the ...
Unexpected viral behavior linked to type 1 diabetes in high-risk children
A TEDDY study led by the University of South Florida has discovered unexpected connections between viruses and T1DCredit: Electron microscopy ...
A new therapeutic target against diseases caused by lipid accumulation in cells
Study with the CRISPR/Cas9 editing technologyCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the August Pi ...
Stem cell therapy helps broken hearts heal in unexpected way
Study in Nature sheds new light on heart treatment controversyCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -- Stem cell therapy helps hearts recover ...
