Author: Lala Trute

Skin Patch Melts Fat Away in Mice

Human beings have two types of fat in various amounts.  Of the two white fat is considered the bad kind as it stores excess energy in large triglyceride droplets. The favored brown fat, on the other hand, has smaller droplets and a large number of mitochondria that burn fat to produce heat. We are born with a relative richness of brown fat, which insulates us to cold temperatures, but as we grow older, most brown fat is lost.  For years, researchers have been searching for therapies that can transform an adult’s white fat into brown fat (a process called browning)...

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Type 2 Diabetes is Reversible Through Diet Within a Decade of Onset

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic progressively destructive condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose). Being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes comes with great social and financial consequences for the patients, as well as poorer quality of life and health expectancy projections. Formerly considered an older person disease, type 2 diabetes is now common in younger, fatter, people and even the very young who are severely obese. Currently remission rates for type 2 diabetes are around 10 – 14%, but apparently, it could be much higher. But that would take an understanding of diet and will...

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5.7M Year Old Footprint Discovery of Human-Like Creatures in Crete Complicate Evolution Narrative

Most paleontological evidence suggests early humans evolved and diverged from their ape ancestors in southern and eastern Africa, remaining on the continent for several million years before migrating to Europe and Asia. Supporting this idea, last year research was presented on a discovery of footprints made by an early human ancestor more than 3.6 million years ago.  The discovery occurred in Tanzania, Africa,  and was made when some of our distant relatives, known as Australopithecus afarensis walked together across wet volcanic ash.  The tracks were considered the oldest prints of their kind ever found.  Lucy, a young adult female who...

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Alien-Hunting ‘Breakthrough Listen’ Detects Repeating Radio Signals From Distant Galaxy

The Breakthrough Listen project, backed by Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg,  CEO of Cosmos Studios Ann Druyan and funded by physicist billionaire Yuri Milner, was launched just a little over two years ago. Breakthrough Listen is utilizing two of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the 210 feet Parkes Telescope in Australia and the 330 foot Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The powerful telescopes enables detecting at least five times more of the radio spectrum and doing so 100 times faster, while screening 10 times more of the sky than previous SETI programs. The project is also using the Automated Planet Finder...

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Scientists Uncover Hidden Lost Languages at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was built between 548 and 565, and is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world. The site lies at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, beneath the mountain where God is said to have revealed the Ten Commandments to Moses.  The site contains the world’s oldest continuously operating library, hosting many important unique books, codices, and manuscripts, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. Researchers from the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL) in California onsite at the monastery have uncovered ancient works hidden underneath monastery scriptures using imaging technology....

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