Chemicals in your living room cause diabetes
A new UC Riverside study shows flame retardants found in nearly every American home cause mice to give birth to offspring that become diabetic.
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A new UC Riverside study shows flame retardants found in nearly every American home cause mice to give birth to offspring that become diabetic.
Nov 10, 2020
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Proteins called antibodies help the immune system find and attack foreign pathogens. Mini versions of antibodies, called nanobodies—natural compounds in the blood of animals such as llamas and sharks—are being studied ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Men in committed relationships choose to keep a greater distance between themselves and an unknown woman they find attractive when given the hormone oxytocin, according to new research in the November 14 issue of The Journal ...
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Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers based in Munich, Berkeley and Bordeaux have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons on demand, in the laboratory. The crucial element in ...
Feb 22, 2012
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PFAS are potentially harmful chemicals that can be found in common, everyday products and most drinking water. They are known as "forever chemicals" because they do not break down over time, and health leaders across the ...
Mar 22, 2023
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In a randomized control study of 10 healthy young men, researchers compared how consuming the single amino acid leucine or its two-molecule equivalent, dileucine, influenced muscle-building and breakdown. They found that ...
Aug 9, 2021
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The chemical interactions that give proteins their shape may be weaker and more numerous than previously recognized. These weak connections provide a new way for researchers to understand proteins that cause disease and help ...
Jul 24, 2019
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(HealthDay) -- The ability of metformin to bind mitochondrial copper may be essential to its mechanism of action, according to a study published online April 9 in Diabetes.
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The glory of tissue expansion technologies is that when structures, such as proteins that build nerve cell connections, are too small for a microscope to resolve, clever chemistry can make everything bigger and easier to ...
Jan 13, 2022
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Love muffins? We're talking about a tasty, fluffy muffin that has no artificial additives and that simultaneously contains lots of beneficial nutrients. As remarkable as it might sound, a recently published study describes ...
Mar 7, 2023
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