10-12-21 Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and collaborators from other institutions have identified a natural substance in dairy fat that may substantially(实质上,大体上) reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The compound, trans-palm...
10-12-13 Men with type 1 diabetes may be able to grow their own insulin-producing cells from their testicular(睾丸的) tissue, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers who presented their findings today at the American Society of Cell Bio...
10-12-01 Our brains are packed with cholesterol(胆固醇) , almost all of which has to be produced within the brain itself, where it is critical for normal brain functions. Now, a new study in the December Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, reveals h...
10-11-12 Researchers report that a drug commonly used to treat diabetes may also retard(延迟,阻止) the growth of fluid-filled cysts(囊肿) of the most common genetic disorder, polycystic kidney(多囊肾) disease. PKD does not discriminate by gender or ra...
10-11-07 United States and Japanese researchers have identified a key step in metabolic pathways(代谢途径) linked to diabetes and cancer. The study on activation of the protein complex TORC 2 was published online in the journal Current Biology Oct. 28. TOR...
10-10-27 Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile(青少年) diabetes, is a multifactorial(多因子的) disease of complex etiology(病因学) characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic(胰腺的) beta cells. In addition to genetic suscep...
10-09-01 A majority of adults in California are obese(肥胖的) or overweight, and more than 2 million have been diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病) , according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Both conditions which are related t...
10-07-30 Postmenopausal(绝经后的) women with diabetes(糖尿病) taking thiazolidinediones ( TZDS噻唑烷二酮 ), including rosiglitazone(罗格列酮) and pioglitazone(吡格列酮) , may be at increased risk for fractures according to a new study accepted for pu...
10-07-09 Having discovered a dramatic increase of an easy-to-detect enzyme(酶) in the red blood cells of people with diabetes and prediabetes(前驱糖尿病) , Johns Hopkins scientists say the discovery could lead to a simple, routine test for detecting the...
10-06-27 Elevated blood levels of high-density lipoprotein ( HDL高密度脂蛋白 ) or good cholesterol(胆固醇) , typically thought to protect against heart disease, may do the opposite in women with type 1 diabetes, according to a University of Pittsburgh Grad...