Oct 31, 2020
Over the past 60 years, the incidence of
type I diabetes in parts of the word has increased sixfold, and
we don’t know why. In the Eizirik Lab at the Indiana Biosciences
Research Institute, Dr. Decio Eizirik and his team research type 1
diabetes in a way that not many others do.
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- How might...
Oct 30, 2020
An implantable bioartificial kidney system that does what
dialysis can’t do; this is what’s being developed as part of The
Kidney Project at University of California, San Francisco and
Vanderbilt University.
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- How healthy kidneys function, and what dialysis does
- What causes the symptoms...
Oct 29, 2020
Not all body fat is the same.
Scientists have identified the presence and significance of brown
fat in adult humans. Shing Kajimura researches brown fat and how
its presence curbs
obesity and type 2 diabetes as well as other metabolic
diseases.
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- What mechanisms cause brown fat to produce heat for our...
Oct 28, 2020
Working on COVID-19? This
podcast is for you. This episode offers a valuable conversation
with a comprehensive yet detailed understanding of SARS CoV-2
pathogenicity.
Listen in as a front-line researcher discusses the
computational biology of
COVID-19 from three directions: the viral action, the human
response, and...
Oct 28, 2020
Exercise: will it make your blood sugar go high, or low…and what
can be done about it? The answer depends on a number of factors.
For over 25 years, Michael C. Riddell has focused his research on
the area where kinesiology and
diabetes meet.
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- How an emerging technology could sense when the body...