Obesity, defined as having a BMI of 30 or greater, and type 2 diabetes are likely to be the greatest public health problems of the next decade. Type 2 diabetes has reached pandemic proportions, and the risk of developing the disease has increased up to ten times in people who are obese.
31 July, 2009
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has introduced the novel peptide-based double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) transduction delivery system Transductin™.
30 July, 2009
PerkinElmer, Inc. recently announced the winners of two industry awards for exceptional achievements in capillary chromatography. PerkinElmer presented the Marcel Golay Award to Barry L. Karger, PhD, of Northeastern University for his work in narrow-diameter liquid chromatography (LC) and the Leslie Ettre Award to W. Christopher Siegler of the University of Washington for his work in three-dimensional gas chromatography (GC).
27 July, 2009
Researchers studying the nervous control of nematode mating behaviour have produced video footage of a male worm preparing to mate with a hermaphrodite.
22 July, 2009
Understanding the structure of proteins is a vital first step in developing new drugs, but to date, drug development has been slow because owing to their instability, proteins are difficult to work with in lab conditions.
22 July, 2009
Changes in the brain measured with MRI and PET scans, combined with memory tests and detection of risk proteins in body fluids, might lead to earlier and more accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, according to new research reported recently at the Alzheimer’s Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2009) in Vienna.
21 July, 2009