Medical research
Biologists delay the aging process by 'remote control'
UCLA biologists have identified a gene that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when activated remotely in key organ systems.
Sep 8, 2014
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Researchers discover key to maintaining muscle strength while we age
What causes us to lose muscle strength as we age and how exercise can prevent it from happening has never been thoroughly understood, but McMaster University researchers have discovered a key protein required to maintain ...
Jun 2, 2015
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Medications
Common diabetes drug reverses inflammation in the liver
The diabetes drug metformin—derived from a lilac plant that's been used medicinally for more than a thousand years—has been prescribed to hundreds of millions of people worldwide as the frontline treatment for type 2 ...
Sep 10, 2020
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Metformin relies on the action of a cellular-stress-response protein, study finds
Metformin, the most prescribed drug for treating diabetes mellitus, known as type 2 diabetes, requires the presence of the growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15)—a protein whose expression increases in response to cellular ...
Dec 16, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Mushroom compound with vitamin E suppresses prostate cancer tumours
Stopping Australia's most commonly diagnosed cancer - prostate cancer - in its tracks is the goal of scientists around the world.
Sep 11, 2014
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Diabetes
Improved metabolic profile after roux-en-Y gastric bypass
(HealthDay)—Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is associated with attenuated markers of oxidative stress in subcutaneous adipose tissue, according to a study published recently in Diabetes.
Jul 24, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Research targets metformin as breast cancer prescription
Research conducted by Suresh Alahari, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that metformin, a commonly prescribed drug for Type 2 Diabetes, may be effective ...
Sep 19, 2019
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Diabetes
Study: Most-used diabetes drug works in different way than previously thought
A team, led by senior author Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Medicine, with the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, ...
Jan 6, 2013
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How the cell's power station survives attacks
Mitochondria, the power generators in our cells, are essential for life. When they are under attack—from poisons, environmental stress or genetic mutations—cells wrench these power stations apart, strip out the damaged ...
Jan 14, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers uncover signal that switches cells to cancerous metabolism
Abnormal metabolism within the cells is a distinctive characteristic of cancer, but until now, the mechanism that causes cells to undergo this metabolic shift remained unknown.
Feb 11, 2015
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