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Venom of Platypus Could Hold Key To Diabetes Treatment

Venom of Platypus Could Hold Key To Diabetes Treatment

Highlights The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone produced in the gut and venom of the platypus regulates blood glucose. GLP-1 hormone produced in the venom lasts longer t...

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Want to Know How Long You Might Live?

Want to Know How Long You Might Live?

Highlights The age, gender and place of residence decides an individual’s average life expectancy. The study offers the life expectancy based on current mortality trends. A w...

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Wearable Sweat-Sensing Skin Patch Paves a New Way for Health Monitoring

Wearable Sweat-Sensing Skin Patch Paves a New Way for Health Monitoring

Highlights The new sweat-sensing patch which is a microfluid device adheres to the skin easily. The device analyses the biomarker levels in the sweat. It is connected wirel...

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Fire Therapy and Cupping Treatment For Obese Chinese Boy

Fire Therapy and Cupping Treatment For Obese Chinese Boy

Highlights An 11 year old boy from China weighs 23 stone (330 pounds) and suffers from Prader-Willi Syndrome-a rare genetic disorder. Gastric bypass surgery did not aid in weight ...

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Walk 12 Minutes Daily to Boost Your Mood

Walk 12 Minutes Daily to Boost Your Mood

Highlights Psychologists from Iowa University have shown how walking can crate positive moods through three tests. They tested the mood of people who took a gentle stroll, people...

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New Subset of Neurons That Controls Hunger Mechanism Identified

New Subset of Neurons That Controls Hunger Mechanism Identified

Highlights Hunger and satiety are controlled by two kinds of neurons, Agouti-related protein (AgRP) neurons and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons. Lack of POMC neurons caused ob...

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Cellular Starvation Kills Treatment Resistance Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells

Cellular Starvation Kills Treatment Resistance Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells

Highlights Triple negative breast cancer lacks all hormone receptors making treatment options very limited. Cystine addiction is triggered by a mechanism that many kinds of tumor ...

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Gene Response Differs With the Amount and Rate of Insulin Secretion

Gene Response Differs With the Amount and Rate of Insulin Secretion

Highlights The scientists found that 278 genes responded to insulin, called insulin-responsive genes, or IRGs. The genes responded differently to variations in insulin levels and...

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Faulty Amino Acid Metabolism Increases Risk of Type-2 Diabetes

Faulty Amino Acid Metabolism Increases Risk of Type-2 Diabetes

Highlights Five genetic variants associated with higher levels of branched-chain amino acids have been found. These variants affect the metabolism of the branched-chain amino acid...

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Efficient Approach for Tracking Physical Activity From Wearable Health Devices

Efficient Approach for Tracking Physical Activity From Wearable Health Devices

Highlights The challenges involved for wearable health technologies are how much data to process and how to store the information. The researchers recruited graduate students for ...

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Now a Brain ‘Fingerprint’ to Identify a Person?

Now a Brain ‘Fingerprint’ to Identify a Person?

Highlights The research team used diffusion MRI to measure the local connectome of 699 brains from five data sets. The new, non-invasive diffusion MRI approach captures the brain'...

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Molecule Traces Left On Phone Reveals Lifestyle

Molecule Traces Left On Phone Reveals Lifestyle

Highlights Humans leave behind molecule traces, chemicals and microbes on every object they touch. Using this information, researchers were able to construct lifestyle sketches fo...

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Belt-Type Medical Device For Treating Diabetes

Belt-Type Medical Device For Treating Diabetes

Highlights Exercise is often difficult for the overweight and elderly suffering from type 2 diabetes. The function of heat shock response (HSR) is decreased in those with diabete...

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Americans Getting Obese, Mississippi Leading The Way

Americans Getting Obese, Mississippi Leading The Way

Highlights The number of obese people has surpassed that of the overweight, for the first time in history in the US. More than three-quarters of American adults today are either...

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Regular Preconception Exercises by Dad’s can Increase the Risk of Metabolic Disorders in the Offspring

Regular Preconception Exercises by Dad’s can Increase the Risk of Metabolic Disorders in the Offspring

Highlights: Preconception exercises are usually done to increase the chances of conceiving. Dad’s preconception exercises are found to increase the risk of obesity and insulin resis...

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