Narendra Malewar – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:02:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Standard type 2 diabetes treatments may not improve the condition in youth https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/standard-type-2-diabetes-treatments-may-not-improve-the-condition-in-youth https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/standard-type-2-diabetes-treatments-may-not-improve-the-condition-in-youth#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:02:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/standard-type-2-diabetes-treatments-may-not-improve-the-condition-in-youth

A new study by the Yale scientists, taking insulin or the most commonly used drug for type 2 diabetes, metformin, failed to either delay or effectively treat the condition in youth.

In the study, dubbed as Restoring Insulin Secretion (RISE) Pediatric Medication Study, scientists explored the impact of two medications for pre-diabetes or diabetes in youth aged 10 to 19. The children and teens either took infusions of insulin for three months, trailed by metformin for a year, or metformin alone. Amid the 15-month contemplate period, the analysts surveyed glucose levels of study members and also the capacity of their beta cells, which store and discharge insulin keeping in mind the end goal to keep up solid glucose.

Scientists discovered that the medications neglected to moderate or stop the progression of type 2 diabetes in either group. The working of the adolescents’ beta cells kept on breaking down in spite of the treatments, which have been appealed to treat write 2 diabetes adequately in adults.

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NASA uses earth as laboratory to study distant worlds https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/nasa-uses-earth-as-laboratory-to-study-distant-worlds Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:55:58 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/nasa-uses-earth-as-laboratory-to-study-distant-worlds

New study uses Earth as a stand-in for an exoplanet, and shows that even with very little light — as little as one pixel — it is still possible to measure key characteristics of distant worlds.

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Finding lost siblings of the Sun https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/finding-lost-siblings-of-the-sun Thu, 19 Apr 2018 03:14:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/04/finding-lost-siblings-of-the-sun

UNSW scientists in collaboration with European scientists demonstrated that the “DNA”, or spectra, of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way could aid them to search the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.

Scientists actually are working on project GALAH, the survey observations for the ambitious galactic archaeology project- which launched in late 2013 as part of a quest to uncover the formulation and evolution of galaxies. Scientists gathered the data from HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory’s (AAO) 3.9-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope near Coonabarabran in NSW to collect spectra for the 340,000 stars.

The data shows that how the Universe went from having just hydrogen and helium soon after the Big Bang to being loaded with every one of the components show now on Earth that is fundamental forever.

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