What do online grocery shopping, venomous snails, and foot biomechanics have in common? All three were research subjects under investigation at the 2024 DMRC retreat, the largest in the history of the event.
Tag: Metabolic Disease
UNC Hospitals Performs First Domino Liver Transplant in Decades
Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, an abdominal organ transplant and hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon at UNC Hospitals, performed a “domino” liver transplant, which helped two patients from a single donor without splitting a liver.
UC San Diego Health Nationally Recognized for Stroke and Diabetes Care
American Heart Association honors UC San Diego Health with multiple awards for its commitment to treating patients with heart disease and stroke.
AI brings hope for patients with lyosomal storage disease
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in drug discovery.
Water fasts can help you lose weight, but you might gain it back quickly
Water fasts, where people consume nothing but water, may not be a long-term weight loss strategy
Succinate Protects against Obesity, Metabolic Disease through Brown Fat Protein Expression
Article title: Exogenous succinate impacts mouse brown adipose tissue mitochondrial proteome and potentiates body mass reduction induced by liraglutide Authors: Rodrigo S. Gaspar, Jeany Delafiori, Giuliana Zuccoli, Victor Corasolla Carregari, Thais P. Prado, Joseane Morari, Davi Sidarta-Oliveira, Carina S. Solon,…
Marine Plankton Tell the Long Story of Ocean Health, and Maybe Human Too
UC San Diego researchers suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links between ocean pollution and land-based rates of childhood and adult chronic illnesses.
Cold temps may help to combat obesity and related metabolic diseases by reducing inflammation, researchers find
Researchers report that exposure to cold temperatures resolved obesity-induced inflammation while improving insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in diet-induced obese mice.
Researchers Catalog Cell Types Present in White Fat Tissue in Mice and in Humans
Scientists have generated an atlas of the cell types present in the white adipose tissue of humans and in mice, allowing them to look at the composition of fat in unprecedented detail.
Sweet! How Glycogen is Linked to Heat Generation in Fat Cells
University of California San Diego researchers, with international colleagues, describe how energy expenditure and heat production are regulated in obesity through a previously unknown cellular pathway.
Wayne State researcher secures $2.3 million in NIH funding for metabolic research
A Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher has been awarded a $2.3 million grant by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, to support research in circadian RNA modification in metabolic disease.
Research Highlights from 2021 ACSM Virtual Annual Meeting: Exercise in Regenerative Medicine
The 2021 Virtual ACSM Basic Science World Congress focuses on regenerative medicine. Chaired by Marcas M. Bamman, Ph.D., FACSM, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, this world congress brings together researchers to discuss cutting-edge science in this rapidly developing field.
Aging, diet-induced obesity, and metabolic disease link explored in new research
Unraveling the links among obesity, aging, telomere lengths and metabolic diseases is the subject of the study published today in Nature Metabolism by a collaborative research team at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
Antimicrobial Soap Additive Worsens Fatty Liver Disease in Mice
Triclosan, an antimicrobial found in many soaps and other household items, worsens fatty liver disease in mice fed a high-fat diet.
Plasma Lactate as a Marker for Metabolic Health
Lactate concentration in the blood is commonly measured in relation to athletic performance and as an index of metabolic alterations in critically ill patients. As a result, numerous and relatively inexpensive methodologies exist to accurately and rapidly measure blood lactate…