Tag: Scripps Research Institute

  • Nation & World

    Reaping benefits of exercise minus the sweat

    A team led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has isolated a natural hormone from muscle cells that triggers some of the key health benefits of exercise.

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  • Nation & World

    Advances in type 2 diabetes drugs

    Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Fla., report they have created prototype drugs having powerful anti-diabetic effects, yet apparently free — at least in mice — of dangerous side effects plaguing some current diabetes medications.

    4 minutes