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Study identifies potential new approach for treating lupus
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The findings of a recent study suggest that targeting iron metabolism in immune system cells may offer a new approach for treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) -- the most common form of the chronic autoimmune disease lupus.
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Overactive cell metabolism is associated with biological ageing: Study
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Why do cells, and thus people, age? The solution could be related to mitochondria, the organelles that provide energy to cells. Though this is not a new thing, direct evidence in human cells had previously been lacking, until now.
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Discovery of metabolic switch could lead to targeted treatment of obesity,
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers have discovered how to modify the function of an enzyme crucial to fat production in fruit flies, which could lead to more effective treatments for cancer and childhood obesity in humans.
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Researchers discover a dependency of glioblastoma on biotin distribution
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Glioblastoma is the most lethal and malignant adult brain cancer that may arise from the neuroglial stem or progenitor cells. Certain gene mutations or those with a known history of other cancers and radiation therapy may predispose patients to develop brain cancer. Tumour relapse is invaria
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Exercise reduces insulin production: Study
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Insulin is a hormone that is required by humans and many other living things. Its most well-known function is to control sugar metabolism. Much less is known about how insulin-producing cells, and thus insulin secretion, are controlled.
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Modicare Gives a Fun Twist to Nutrition; Launches Well Gummies to Fulfil N
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): Modicare Limited, one of India's leading direct selling companies, expands its Well range with the launch of 'Well Gummies'. Giving a fun twist to nutrition, Well Gummies underlines and advocates the need for improved dietary and lifestyle habits,
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Insufficient insulin processing leads to being overweight: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Being 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 being overweight.
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Potential climate change-nutrition connection in plant metabolism uncovere
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study from researchers at Michigan State University underscores that there's still much to learn regarding how plants will function, and how nutritious they will be, as more carbon enters our atmosphere.
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Study reveals link between metabolism changes, Huntington's disease
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A study has connected the Huntington's disease mutation to metabolic anomalies that cause developmental defects in the brain's oligodendrocyte cells. They found that high doses of biotin and thiamine can bring normal functions back.
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Scientists engineer probiotic to prevent infection of large intestine
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have created a probiotic to restore bile salt metabolism, found in the gastrointestinal tract, to counter the onset and effects of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI).
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Study: Lymphoma cell metabolism might provide new cancer target
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell's Ithaca campus
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Researchers reveal connection between metabolism changes in brain cells, H
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered a connection between metabolic abnormalities that affect the growth of the brain's oligodendrocyte cells and the mutation that results in Huntington's disease. They discovered that thiamine and biotin in large amounts can re
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