News tagged with metabolic processes
NMR on a microscale
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The technique well known from its use in MRI scanning - actually based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) - can now also be applied to extremely small samples thanks to an ingenious combination ...
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An inner 'fingerprint' for personalizing medical care
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Fingerprints move over. Scientists are reporting evidence that people have another defining trait that may distinguish each of the 6.7 billion humans on Earth from one another almost as surely as the arches, ...
Genes controlling insulin can alter timing of biological clock
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the genes that regulate insulin also alter the timing of the circadian clock, a new study has found.
Higher levels of obesity-related hormone found in patients with psoriasis
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Patients with the skin disease psoriasis appear more likely to have higher levels of leptin (a hormone produced by fat cells that may contribute to obesity and other metabolic abnormalities) than persons without psoriasis, ...
Could Dr. House be replaced by a computer?
Oct 16, 2008 |
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Scientists know that different normal and diseased tissues behave differently. But a method that tells them just how they do so may one day give medical science a new way to fight obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other ...
Metabolic syndrome linked to cold tolerance
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Chicago have discovered that many of the genetic variations that have enabled human populations to tolerate colder climates may also affect their susceptibility to metabolic syndrome, a ...
Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough ...
Molecular partnership controls daily rhythms, body metabolism
Nov 26, 2008 |
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A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has discovered a key molecular partnership that coordinates ...
New Web resource to improve crop engineering
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Stanford, CA. The Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal ...
Hibernation-like behavior in Antarctic fish -- on ice for winter
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation. Reporting this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the online journal from the Public Library of Sci ...
NYU dental professor discovers biological clock
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Apr 06, 2008 |
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Why do rats live faster and die younger than humans? A newly discovered biological clock provides tantalizing clues.
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