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Glucose is the most common simple sugar that serves a source of energy for living organisms. It's a component of carbohydrates and can be found in syrups and other sugars.
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APR 15, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 13, 2015Neuroscience
By directly recording electrical activity from the human brain, neuroscientists at the Stanford University School of Med ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 13, 2015Health & Medicine
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Biologists at MIT and the Whitehead Institute have discovered a vulnerability of brain cancer cells that could be exploi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 07, 2015Health & Medicine
University of Montana researchers have good news for endurance athletes hankering for a burger and fries after an intens ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 31, 2015Cancer
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The search for a fountain of youth has bedeviled kings and alchemists for centuries. Around 80 years ago, Cornell Univer ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
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Microbes may just be the next diet craze. Researchers have programmed bacteria to generate a molecule that, through norm ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 20, 2015Immunology
In recent years, a deficiency of vitamin D has been linked to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, two illnesses tha ...Written By: Robert WoodardJAN 15, 2015Health & Medicine
The combination of colder winter weather in some areas and the holidays can create a one two punch of too much food and ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 10, 2014Health & Medicine
Most people have heard that artificial sweeteners help with weight loss and diabetes prevention. According to a new stud ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 18, 2014Health & Medicine
An advertising campaign for a popular candy bar uses the phrase "you're not you when you're hungry" in humorous commerci ...JAN 31, 2014Cell & Molecular Biology
Can you lose weight by inducing fat cells to burn other fat cells? That's a little simplistic, but that's the gist of a ...JAN 29, 2014Technology
Everyone who has watched his or her kids bounce around the house after feasting on Halloween treats knows that sugar is ...
APR 15, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 13, 2015
Neuroscience
By directly recording electrical activity from the human brain, neuroscientists at the Stanford University School of Med
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 13, 2015
Health & Medicine
Plaque formation and tooth decay must be monitored through regular visits to the dentist's office. While therapeutic age
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 10, 2015
Cancer
Biologists at MIT and the Whitehead Institute have discovered a vulnerability of brain cancer cells that could be exploi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 07, 2015
Health & Medicine
University of Montana researchers have good news for endurance athletes hankering for a burger and fries after an intens
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 31, 2015
Cancer
Fasting in combination with chemotherapy has already been shown to kill cancer cells, but a pair of new studies in mice
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
The search for a fountain of youth has bedeviled kings and alchemists for centuries. Around 80 years ago, Cornell Univer
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 23, 2015
Microbiology
Microbes may just be the next diet craze. Researchers have programmed bacteria to generate a molecule that, through norm
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
In recent years, a deficiency of vitamin D has been linked to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, two illnesses tha ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
JAN 15, 2015
Health & Medicine
The combination of colder winter weather in some areas and the holidays can create a one two punch of too much food and
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 10, 2014
Health & Medicine
Most people have heard that artificial sweeteners help with weight loss and diabetes prevention. According to a new stud
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 18, 2014
Health & Medicine
An advertising campaign for a popular candy bar uses the phrase "you're not you when you're hungry" in humorous commerci
...
JAN 31, 2014
Cell & Molecular Biology
Can you lose weight by inducing fat cells to burn other fat cells? That's a little simplistic, but that's the gist of a
...
JAN 29, 2014
Technology
Everyone who has watched his or her kids bounce around the house after feasting on Halloween treats knows that sugar is
...