A UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 (T1)
Month: February 2019
Fat bats withstand the effects of white-nose syndrome, study finds
Although white-nose syndrome (WNS) has pushed some bat populations to extinction, researchers have found that higher fat stores are helping
Dietary fiber helps clump material in your gut
Food, microbes, and medicine all clump together as they move through our gut. Sticky molecules secreted into our intestines bind
Three years into soda tax, sugary drink consumption down more than 50 percent in Berkeley
Consumption of sugary drinks in Berkeley’s diverse and low-income neighborhoods dropped precipitously in 2015, just months after the city levied
New mechanisms regulating neural stem cells
The use of stem cells to repair organs is one of the foremost goals of modern regenerative medicine. Scientists at
Signals on the scales: How the brain processes images
How are the images cast on the retina reassembled in the brain? Researchers in Munich and Tuebingen find that processing
Pain, fatigue, poor sleep: common symptom triad at age 65+
In older people, symptoms of pain, depression and fatigue are commonplace. But how common? Researchers examined the prevalence and impact
A prosthetic that restores the sense of where your hand is
The next-generation bionic hand, developed by researchers from EPFL, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the A.
New ‘interspecies communication’ strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered
Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts, they can also
Old and terminally ill people do not want end-of-life care to focus on postponing death
It is something everyone will have to deal with. Our life has its beginning and it has its ending. It
