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With funding from ARPA-H, a team led by Columbia researchers plans to build an implantable device—filled with engineered cells—that regulates appetite, digestion, and blood sugar.
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Columbia researchers found that exposure to famine early in gestation—but not in the first years of life or late gestation—increased the risk of developing type 2 diabetes decades later.
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A new BRAIN Initiative atlas showcases the diverse cell populations within the human hypothalamus, paving the way to discovering novel cellular targets for obesity and metabolic disease
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A new study in women found that shortening sleep by just 90 minutes for a few weeks increased insulin resistance, a risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
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- August 2, 2012
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a mechanism that can give energy-storing white fat some of the beneficial characteristics of energy-burning brown fat. The findings, based on studies of mice and of human fat tissue, could lead to new strategies for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. The study was published today in the online edition of the journal Cell.
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- June 15, 2012
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have identified a brain receptor that appears to play a central role in regulating appetite.
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- May 11, 2012
Drs. Rudy Leibel and Michael Rosenbaum discuss the biology of weight regulation in this HBO documentary on obesity.
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- April 12, 2012
Maintaining the right level of sugar in the blood is the responsibility not only of insulin, which removes glucose, but also of a hormone called glucagon, which adds glucose.
- April 10, 2012
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- March 12, 2012
New Approach to Treating Type I Diabetes? Columbia Scientists Transform Gut Cells into Insulin Factories
- February 23, 2012
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