News articles tagged with 'glucose' (Page 2)
Discovery of source of glycogen 'manufacturing' errors sheds light on fatal disease
— 2 Mar 2011 12:10 | HealthIndiana University scientists have solved a perplexing mystery regarding one of the body's main energy storage molecules, in the process shedding light on a possible route to treatment…
Answers to a rare and tragic form of epilepsy
— 2 Mar 2011 11:58 | HealthA new study offers critical insight into the biochemistry of a rare and fatal form of epilepsy known as Lafora disease, a genetic condition that typically strikes children in their…
Enzyme cocktail could eliminate a step in biofuel process
— 26 Feb 2011 17:12 | ChemistryConversion of biomass to fuel requires several steps: chemical pretreatment to break up the biomass - often dilute (sulphuric) acid, detoxification to remove the toxic chemicals required…
Cell phone use may have effect on brain activity, but health consequences unknown
— 23 Feb 2011 17:55 | HealthIn a preliminary study, researchers found that 50-minute cell phone use was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism (a marker of brain activity) in the region closest to…
Convenient blood test not as effective for diagnosing diabetes in children
— 23 Feb 2011 17:46 | HealthDoctors are increasingly using a convenient blood glucose test for diagnosing diabetes and pre-diabetes, but a study by the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital shows…
People at risk of diabetes offer clues toward novel drugs
— 15 Feb 2011 16:57 | HealthOnce people develop type 2 diabetes, high blood glucose levels alter their metabolism so much that it becomes difficult to sift through all the clues to find what might enable the disease.…
Study identifies blood glucose levels that predict 10-year risk of retinopathy
— 15 Feb 2011 16:54 | HealthIndividuals who have higher blood glucose levels and poorer control of those levels over time appear more likely to develop eye-related complications 10 years later, according to a…
Scripps Research study sheds light on RNA 'on off switches'
— 13 Feb 2011 21:13 | BiologyScientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shed new light on a molecular switch that turns genes on or off in response to a cell's energy needs…
Evolution led to genetic variation that may affect diabetes, Stanford scientist says
— 8 Feb 2011 18:36 | HealthThe root causes of complex diseases such as type-2 diabetes and obesity have been difficult to identify because the diseases are, well, complex. They occur at the dicey biological intersection…
UT Southwestern researchers uncover potential 'cure' for type 1 diabetes
— 27 Jan 2011 18:23 | HealthType 1 diabetes could be converted to an asymptomatic, non-insulin-dependent disorder by eliminating the actions of a specific hormone, new findings by UT Southwestern Medical Centre…