It promises to be a simple and elegant strategy to heal diabetes type 1: Replacing the destroyed beta-cells in the bodies of patients with newly-produced insulin-secreting cells. For years, researchers around the globe tried ...
Dec 1, 2016
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Blocking the hormone that raises sugar levels in the blood could increase insulin levels while keeping blood sugar levels down.
Apr 19, 2016
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Stem cell research published today offers up new clues as to how Parkinson's spreads from cell to cell, a process which has evaded researchers for decades.
Feb 18, 2016
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Currently, there is no treatment to halt the progression of Huntington's disease (HD), a fatal genetic disorder that slowly robs sufferers of their physical and mental abilities. Now, researchers at University of California, ...
Dec 7, 2015
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For years, biomedical researchers have suspected that a specific set of immune cells are responsible for causing disease in lupus patients, but until now they haven't known for sure one way or the other.
Dec 7, 2015
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Several neurodegenerative disorders are caused by aggregates of a single protein known as alpha-synuclein. In collaboration with CNRS and the University of Antwerp, KU Leuven neurobiologists have discovered that the shape ...
Jun 10, 2015
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It's a question that seems to offer tantalizing hope to those suffering from vision impairment. Why is it that when the optic nerve is damaged—either through trauma or disease—few of its neurons survive and fewer still ...
May 5, 2015
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UC Davis Assistant Professor Mark Huising is a recipient of The Hartwell Foundation 2014 Individual Biomedical Research Award to support his early-stage research toward a cure for juvenile diabetes. Diabetes affects 10 percent ...
Apr 21, 2015
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Individuals with type 2 diabetes, who are resistant to insulin, have an excess blood glucose level, which they are now trying to reduce using a new class of diabetes drugs known as the gliflozins. These new drugs lower the ...
Apr 21, 2015
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EPFL scientists have developed a new method that can accurately simulate the chemical modification of the protein behind Parkinson's disease. The technique, has opened a new way of understanding Parkinson's, and can be expanded ...
Apr 2, 2015
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