Archive: 05/08/2013

Thin people get diabetes too

Pointing the finger at fat as the major or sole contributor to contracting type 2 diabetes is misleading and wrongly promotes the idea that the condition is entirely self-induced, research at Flinders University has found.

Tracking nanodiamond-tagged stem cells

A method that is used to track the fate of a single stem cell within mouse lung tissue is reported in a study published online this week in Nature Nanotechnology. The method may offer insights into the factors that determine ...

Rage against the disease

Imagine a world where asthma wasn't a chronic disease, rather an inconvenient illness whose first symptoms could be easily treated. This vision could one day become a reality thanks to cutting-edge research into an immune ...

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