POSTS TAGGED AS metabolic syndrome

A Possible Urine Test for Cancers and Metabolic Syndrome

Pillar-like molecules as biosensors
Japanese biochemists report that a pillar shaped compound can bind with the metabolite 1-methylnicotinamide to form a [MORE]

The Future of Exercise—in a Pill

Exercise
The protein myostatin plays a role in obesity by inhibiting muscle growth. Knowing that, researchers at Augusta University in Georgia [MORE]

Activating Liver Regeneration

FGF21 Effects
This piece mainly makes a case for FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21) accelerating liver regeneration after surgery, but this [MORE]

Metabolgenomics

Metabolic syndrome-that dangerous mix of hypertension, elevated cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes-is both biologically complex and rising in incidence as [MORE]

Predicting Metabolic Syndrome in the First Decade of Life

Melinda Sothern PhD
Professor of Public Health at the LSU Health Sciences Center (New Orleans), Melinda Sothern, recently reported her [MORE]

VC’s Pursuing Obesity Projects

With the World Health Organization (WHO) projecting that, by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight, and among them 700 [MORE]