Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Sep 1 2022 New research confirms for the first time that ethnicity is a risk factor for developing kidney disease in people with Type 1 diabetes. The study is one of the largest of its type and is published today in Diabetes Care by researchers from King’s College London. The findings also show...
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Insufficient insulin processing leads to overweight
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL Overweight increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body’s insulin production contribute to overweight. Poor nutrition, too little movement and too many pounds on the scale...
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Improving melanoma diagnostic tools
by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Age-standardized melanoma incidence from 1982 through 2018 in the U.S. White, Queensland, and Scotland populations. Joinpoint regression models for in situ and invasive melanoma: A) Queensland, B) United States (U.S.) White, C) Scotland populations, and D) in situ to invasive melanoma incidence rate ratios. ASR = age-standardized rate (U.S....
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Inhibiting key metabolic enzyme shows promise against melanoma
SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS IMAGE: ZE’EV RONAI, PH.D. CREDIT: SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS LA JOLLA, CALIF. – Sept 01, 2022 –Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys, led by Ze’ev Ronai, Ph.D., have shown for the first time that inhibiting a key metabolic enzyme selectively kills melanoma cells and stops tumor growth. Published in Nature Cell Biology, these findings could lead to...
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Common back ailment could be sign of heart failure
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center Screening spinal stenosis patients undergoing surgery for protein deposits in their spine could identify people at risk of developing heart failure from deposits of the same protein in the heart. Image of transthyretin protein deposits in the heart. Credit: Mathew Maurer/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Columbia researchers have found...
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Research team reveals mechanisms at work in progression of pancreatic cysts to pancreatic cancer
by University of California, San Francisco Pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). Credit: National Cancer Institute Pancreatic cysts have gained substantial attention in recent years because they represent one of the only precursors of pancreatic cancer identifiable through radiologic imaging. Although most of these cysts, also known as pancreatic...
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Why don’t children with obesity benefit instantly from exercise?
by Ian Thomsen, Northeastern University Northeastern Psychology student Trevor Cline runs a simulation with Mattea, 13, where she runs on a treadmill while wearing a VO2 max test, the gold standard way to measure maximal aerobic capacity at the Center for Cognitive & Brain Health in Northeastern’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University...
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Researchers identify possible treatment target for a type of sporadic ALS
by National Institutes of Health HML-2 envelope (Env)-induced neurotoxicity in vivo in mouse brain. (A) Experimental approach showing stereotactic injection of Env protein and K01 antibody or Env protein and control Ig into the primary motor cortex of 3-month-old C57BL/6 mice. Brain tissues were collected 1 week after the injection. IC = intracerebral. (B) Schematic representation of the reference...
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New test could speed up the diagnosis of womb cancer
by University College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new PCR test that identifies women with womb cancer from a sample taken from the cervix or vagina has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Innsbruck. The research, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, reports that the test is more accurate than current...
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Most promising PTSD treatment may use ‘ecstasy’ or ‘magic mushrooms’ alongside psychotherapy
by European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Post-COVID trauma and the war in Ukraine means that millions of people are suffering or are at an increased risk of developing an “epidemic” of post-traumatic stress (PTSD). Now a new review suggests that combining established psychotherapy methods with newer pharmaceuticals may offer the best therapeutic approach...