Word: insulin
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...week-old embryos, have not yet specialized and retain the ability to develop into any type of tissue found in the body. Stem cell-based treatments hold out the hope of reversing progressive nervous disorders, such as Alzheimer’s or multiple sclerosis, and of replacing the weakened insulin-producing cells that cause diabetes. A September report by an expert panel of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that embryonic stem cell research could be used to treat conditions as varied as heart disease, severe burns and cancer, with significant benefits for more than 100 million Americans...
...postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in San Francisco in the 1970s, and later at Genentech, Ullrich worked on cloning the gene for insulin. His research led to the development of the first commercial medical treatment, human insulin for diabetes, produced through recombinant dna technology. Since then Ullrich has been on a quest to battle cancer by concentrating on signal transduction, a means of communication between cells in the human body. From this work came the drug Herceptin, the first treatment to aim at the cells that cause breast cancer. Ullrich's approach is not to target the cancer...
BEDTIME STORY A good night's sleep can affect more than your beauty. New research finds that adults who sleep an average of five hours a night have a 40% lower insulin sensitivity than those tucked up for eight. The risk? When insulin can't do its job properly, the body is more likely to develop diabetes and even to gain weight faster...
...this month's Diabetes Care report that diabetics are twice as likely to suffer from depression as the rest of us. Depression, it turns out, often precedes the onset of diabetes--and may contribute to it. Depressed patients often overeat and have sedentary lifestyles, both of which may promote insulin resistance. Furthermore, some antidepressants, particularly the older tricyclics, disrupt glucose control. The good news: proper treatment of depression may actually improve diabetes...
What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...