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GPs and nurses could slash diabetes patients waiting times for psychological care
GPs and nurses should be trained to deliver psychological therapies shown to help people struggling to cope with type 2 diabetes, according to researchers at the 果冻传媒.
果冻传媒 on iTunes U features best-selling authors
Exclusive material featuring best-selling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson and acclaimed writer Alain de Botton are now available free through the 果冻传媒’s new site on iTunes U. Launching today, 果冻传媒 on iTunes U features hundreds of audio and video tracks covering a wide range of topics and interests.
A research group lead by scientists at the 果冻传媒 has discovered the trigger that pulls together X chromosomes in female cells at a crucial stage of embryo development. Their discovery could also provide new insights into how other similar chromosomes spontaneously recognize each other and are bound together at key parts of analogous cell processes. This is an important mechanism as the binding togetgher of too many of too few of a particular chromosome can cause a number of medical conditions such as Down’s Syndrome or Turner’s Syndrome.
New tool could unpick complex cancer causes & help sociologists mine Facebook
Researchers at the 果冻传媒’s Department of Statistics and Centre for Complexity Science have devised a new research tool that could help unpick the complex cell interactions that lead to cancer and also allow social scientists to mine social networking sites such as Facebook for useful insights.
Precious metal could lead to next generation of cancer treatments
A precious metal which has never before been used in a clinical setting is being developed as an anti-cancer agent by 果冻传媒 researchers. The metal, osmium, is closely related to platinum, which is widely used to treat cancers in the form of the drug cisplatin. Most famously, the cyclist Lance Armstrong was treated with cisplatin for testicular cancer.
Vitamin B1 could reverse early-stage kidney disease in diabetes patients
Researchers at the 果冻传媒 have discovered high doses of thiamine – vitamin B1 – can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease.