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Scientists find new link between insulin and core body temperature

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin—a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes—and core body temperature. While ...





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Molecule discovered that makes obese people develop diabetes

Molecule discovered that makes obese people develop diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Many people who are overweight or obese develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes at some stage in their lives. A European research team has now discovered that obese people have large amounts of the ...


Tissue tension regulates tumor progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists have shown for the first time that the rigidity of a tissue can induce cancer. The research team identified an enzyme that is crucial for regulating tissue stiffness and demonstrated that ...


Formerly conjoined twins in stable condition (AP)

Formerly conjoined twins in stable condition

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain ...


Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant’s bone with the biodegradable ...


Twins joined at head successfully separated (AP)

Twins joined at head successfully separated (Update 2)

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(AP) -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain ...


Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection.


Researchers track down protein responsible for chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize one of the most severe forms of sinusitis, a study by Johns Hopkins ...


Stem cells alleviate tumor treatment side effects

Stem cells alleviate tumor treatment side effects

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study.


On your last nerve: NC State researchers advance understanding of stem cells

On your last nerve: Researchers advance understanding of stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells called neurons. The research is a significant advance ...


A coating for life: Biodegradable fibers advance stent technology and brain surgery, then disappear

A coating for life: Biodegradable fibers advance stent technology and brain surgery, then disappear

Biology / Biotechnology

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Stents that keep weakened and flabby arteries from collapsing have been true life-savers. But after six months, those stents are no longer needed -- once the arteries are strengthened, they become unnecessary. ...



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