Fasting has long been an interest to the scientific community, chiefly because of its touted historic benefits to the human body. Fasting is a natural evolutionary survival adaption that allowed us to survive when food was scarce during the winter months, by slowing our bodies natural processes and using the food we did consume more […]
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University of Exeter makes new diabetes discoveries that could lead to new treatments
University of Exeter researchers have uncovered crucial information that could change how Type 1 Diabetes is treated, including the possibility that it may be viable to awaken dormant cells in order to reverse the disease. Diabetes is a condition which stops the body producing sufficient amounts of insulin, the hormone that regulates sugar and carbohydrate […]
Exeter academics make world’s best list
Six academics from the University of Exeter have earned a place on a prestigious list of the world’s most influential minds, which was published earlier this week. Inclusion on the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list, which spans natural, biomedical and social sciences, represents a researcher’s ranking within the global top 1 per cent. Three […]
Smashed on science: Diet, disease and diabetes
SMASHED ON SCIENCE The debut of the ‘Pint of Science‘ festival recently took over Exeter pubs, and Exeposé Science and Tech are here to give you the best bits, and fill you in on what you may have missed. Solene Long provides a short snippet from the presentation “Diabetes: Islands of Hope”, hosted by Prof. Noel […]
Smashed on Science: Tempted, sugar coated and emotional!?!
SMASHED ON SCIENCE The debut of the ‘Pint of Science‘ festival recently took over Exeter pubs, and Exeposé Science and Tech are here to give you the best bits, and fill you in on what you may have missed. Jenya Siryk provides a short snippet from the presentation “Tempted, sugar coated and emotional!?!”, hosted by Prof. Noel Morgan at […]
Smashed on Science: Diabetes – Islands of Hope
SMASHED ON SCIENCE The debut of the ‘Pint of Science‘ festival recently took over Exeter pubs, and Exeposé Science and Tech are here to give you the best bits, and fill you in on what you may have missed. Evie Brown provides a short snippet from the presentation “Diabetes: Islands of Hope”, hosted by Prof. Noel […]