Archive: 04/08/2016
Study sheds light on gender differences in diabetes and aging
All's not fair in love and glucose intolerance - overweight men are more prone to get type 2 diabetes than are overweight women. The same phenomena holds true in mice and no one know why. Researchers at the Buck Institute ...
Aug 4, 2016
Don't freestyle 'swimmer's shoulder' injuries
Elite and competitive swimmers log between 60,000 and 80,000 meters weekly—swimming the length of an Olympic-sized pool 1,200 times—which places significant stress on their shoulder joints. "The upper body provides 90 ...
Aug 4, 2016
Study analyses how epigenetics regulate vital functions from bacteria to humans
After the emergence of single-celled organisms some billions of years ago, nature started experimenting with how to diversify gene function without changing the sequence of the DNA, such that the blue print remains conserved, ...
Aug 4, 2016