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Calories, not protein or carbs, are key to weight loss for people with diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to reduce weight if they focus on cutting back on total calorie intake, rather than specific high protein/high carbohydrate diets according ...

Diabetes created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists identify protein that contributes to symptoms of Parkinson's disease

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research organization, have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease—a discovery that could one day lead to ...

Neuroscience created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Investigators achieve important step toward treating Huntington's disease

A team of researchers at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures has developed a technique for using stem cells to deliver therapy that specifically targets the genetic abnormality found in Huntington's disease, a hereditary ...

Neuroscience created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists uncover novel mechanism of glioblastoma development

Most research on glioblastoma development, a complicated tumor of the brain with a poor prognosis, has focused on the gene transcription level, but scientists suggest that post-transcriptional regulation could be equally ...

Cancer created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell therapy reverses diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet beta cells and requires daily injections of insulin to regulate the patient's blood glucose levels. A new method described in BioMed ...

Medical research created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Researchers discover protein that may represent new target for treating type 1 diabetes

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have discovered a new protein that may play a critical role in how the human body regulates blood sugar levels. Reporting ...

Medical research created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can proteins in the blood predict an early death?

Certain measures of kidney health may predict who is likely to die prematurely, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings suggest that some mar ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Control by the matrix: Researchers decipher the role of proteins in the cell environment

How astrocytes, certain cells of the nervous system, are generated was largely unknown up to now. Bochum's researchers have now investigated what influence the cell environment, known as the extracellular ...

Medical research created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proteins do not predict outcome of herceptin treatment in HER2-positive breast cancer

Precisely quantifying the amount of three different HER growth proteins, along with several other proteins believed linked to breast cancer, did not predict a patient's outcome after treatment for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer ...

Cancer created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breakthrough in regulating fat metabolism

Scientists at Warwick Medical School have made an important discovery about the mechanism controlling the body's 'fat switch', shedding new light on our understanding of how proteins regulate appetite control and insulin ...

Medical research created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Diametric shift in 2 protein levels spurs Alzheimer's plaque accumulation

A diametric shift in the levels of two proteins involved in folding, moving and cutting other proteins enables accumulation of the destructive brain plaque found in Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.

Medical research created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists point to link between missing synapse protein and abnormal behaviors

(Medical Xpress) -- Although many mental illnesses are uniquely human, animals sometimes exhibit abnormal behaviors similar to those seen in humans with psychological disorders. Such behaviors are called endophenotypes. Now, ...

Neuroscience created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Andromeda Biotech: A drug for type 1 diabetes

The treated patients in the double-blinded study of DiaPep 277 showed significantly better pancreas function that the control group.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imaging technique IDs plaques, tangles in brains of severely depressed older adults

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the elderly, but little is known about the underlying biology of its development in older adults.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Connexins: Providing protection to cells destroyed in Type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong disease characterized by high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is caused by the patient's immune system attacking and destroying the cells in their pancreas that produce the hormone ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0