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...England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that leaner people tended to have more brown-fat deposits than overweight or obese individuals. Interestingly, women were twice as likely as men to have active brown fat, according to the study, conducted by Dr. Ronald Kahn and his colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...Early Career Scientist program. Among the 50 nationwide grant recipients, announced last Thursday, are Bradley E. Bernstein, who conducts cancer research at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital; Kevin Eggan and Konrad Hochedlinger, both researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Amy J. Wagers of the Joslin Diabetes Center; and Rachel I. Wilson ’96, who runs a neurobiology lab at Harvard Medical School. The grant provides each researcher with salary, benefits, and a research budget of over $1.5 million for a six-year period. It also pays for the cost of research space and equipment, according...
...restrictions on separating privately and publicly funded research. “You have to go through a lot of hoops in order to find the space to be able to do the work,” said Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine who works at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center, where he said stem cell research must occur in a specific room renovated by non-federal dollars. Under current law, stem cell researchers must be exceedingly careful to ensure that nothing funded by the NIH contributes in any way to embryonic stem cell research, forcing researchers to purchase...
...accurate as those taken from the blood. Others have asked whether this technology—which is still years away from being tested in humans—could be read through different skin pigments. But Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine at the Medical School’s Joslin Diabetes Center, remained cautiously optimistic. “Everyone is always coming up with new ideas but if this technology does what it says it does, I believe it would be a great tool for diabetes patients,” he said...
...This study in general supports what we understand," says Dr. Alan Jacobson, chief of psychiatric services at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. "It's another study adding to our recognition that Type 2 diabetes portends some type of problem in terms of cognitive function...