Diabetes
Lipid signaling from beta cells can potentiate an inflammatory macrophage polarization
Do the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas unwittingly produce a signal that aids their own demise in Type 1 diabetes?
Feb 21, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Risk of metastatic cancer increases in those who have diabetes
As if people living with diabetes didn't have enough health concerns, here's another: increased risk of metastatic cancer. New Cornell University research points to a possible explanation for this health double whammy.
May 01, 2019
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Medical research
Scientists help explain how dietary fat affects stem cell differentiation
You are what you eat when it comes to fat, report scientists from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in the journal Science Advances.
Dec 01, 2017
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientist who studied Einstein's brain dies at 90
Marian Cleeves Diamond, a neuroscientist who studied Albert Einstein's brain and was one of the first to show that the brain can improve with enrichment, has died.
Aug 17, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mosquito-borne viruses like Zika may be spread at lower temperatures, potentially expanding impact
Transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, such as Zika, occur at lower temperatures than previously thought, a recently released study co-authored by two University of South Florida researchers shows.
May 09, 2017
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Neuroscience
Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases
Head injuries can harm hundreds of genes in the brain in a way that increases people's risk for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, UCLA life scientists report.
Mar 06, 2017
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Health
Exercise during pregnancy may reduce markers of aging in offspring
Exercise during pregnancy may be as effective in protecting the next generation from age-related health risks as efforts made during the offspring's own adulthood, new research suggests. Kevin Pearson, associate professor ...
Nov 07, 2016
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Health
Fructose alters hundreds of brain genes, which can lead to a wide range of diseases
A range of diseases—from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, and from Alzheimer's disease to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—are linked to changes to genes in the brain. A new study by UCLA life scientists has ...
Apr 22, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
3-D Models of Spreading Tumors May Help Fight Cancer
University of Kentucky researchers Ren Xu and Gaofeng Xiong at the Markey Cancer Center and the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences show it is possible to create a three-dimensional (3-D) model system to investigate ...
Feb 26, 2016
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Health
When a field researcher's first aid kit is the only one for miles
Under a clear blue autumn sky, the 20 or so people gathered in UC Berkeley's Memorial Glade, with their sleeping pads and trekking poles, appeared to be part of a camping or picnic outing. In fact, they were field researchers ...
Oct 22, 2015
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