Diabetes
Study reveals obesity-related trigger that can lead to diabetes
People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is not well understood.
Jan 11, 2023
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Overweight & Obesity
Timing calorie intake synchronizes circadian rhythms across multiple systems in mice
Numerous studies have shown health benefits of time-restricted eating including increase in life span in laboratory studies, making practices like intermittent fasting a hot topic in the wellness industry. However, exactly ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Surgery
Artificial intelligence tool developed to help make real-time diagnoses during surgery
When a patient undergoes a surgical operation to remove a tumor or treat a disease, the course of surgery is often not predetermined. To decide how much tissue needs to be removed, surgeons must know more about the condition ...
Dec 23, 2022
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Medical research
High-energy X-rays leave a trace of destruction in bone collagen
A team of medical researchers at Charité-Universitätsmedizin has analyzed damage by focused high energetic X-rays in bone samples from fish and mammals at BESSY II. With a combination of microscopy techniques, the scientists ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Genetics
Obesity researchers discover new gene mutation in children
A research team at Leipzig University's Faculty of Medicine has discovered a new mechanism that is associated with severe obesity in children. This genetic rearrangement leads to an unusual expression of a gene involved in ...
Dec 21, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists map genetic evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukemia to Richter's syndrome
Every year, up to 1% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a slow-growing blood cancer, have their disease transform into a far more aggressive cancer, a form of lymphoma known as Richter's syndrome. For the ...
Dec 12, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Anatomical barriers shield the brain from SARS-CoV-2 invasion at vulnerable interfaces
A common symptom of COVID-19 is a partial or complete loss of smell. The virus infects sustentacular cells in the olfactory epithelium and is thought to impair thereby the activity of the sensory neurons in this epithelium.
Dec 8, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
New prostate cancer diagnostic pathway paves way for general screening
In screening for prostate cancer, the risk of overdiagnosis can be halved, a University of Gothenburg study shows. With the proposed diagnostic pathway, considerably fewer harmless tumors are found. This solves a big problem ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Neuroscience
Down syndrome, like Alzheimer's, is a double-prion disorder
The brains of people with Down syndrome develop the same neurodegenerative tangles and plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease and frequently demonstrate signs of the neurodegenerative disorder in their forties or fifties. ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Medical research
Developing therapies for treatment-resistant prostate cancer: Small clinical trial shows 40% progression-free survival
Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have identified an investigational therapeutic approach that could be effective against treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Results of their Phase II clinical trial, published in Molecular ...
Nov 2, 2022
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