[Humor] We're all familiar with -- or should be familiar with -- the standard lab tests to assess our diabetes control. You know, the hemoglobin A1c, the lipid level tests, blood pressure, kidney function tests, and so forth. Sometimes it seems as if every time we work hard to get our numbers in the normal range, some authority... Read more
Can insulin produced in lettuce cure type 1 diabetes some day? Possibly. In mice, it seems to modulate the immune attack on the beta cells that is the hallmark of type 1 diabetes. But the pathway is complex.
Therapeutic insulin is usually injected. This is for two reasons. First, most proteins are partically digested in the stomach. The... Read more
Great! Just what fat people need: Another reason to put them down. A story reported in the New England Journal of Medicine and quickly moving through the popular press and the blogosphere found that people are apt to be the same weight as their close friends. One's first thought is, "Well, of course. If your... Read more
Back in the 1960s, when I was in graduate school, progress in the then-new discipline of molecular biology was going on at a rapid pace. This was partly because the time was right. When the time for some scientific advance is right, you'll often see different labs making the same discoveries at just about the same time. But another... Read more
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