Pioneering research on Type 2 diabetes
Friday, January 4, 2013 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
While legions of medical researchers have been looking to understand the genetic basis of disease and how mutations may affect human health, one group of biomedical researchers is studying the metabolism of cells and their surrounding tissue, to ferret out ways in which certain diseases begin. This approach, which includes computer modeling, can be applied to Type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases, among others.