Tag: Steven Shoelson

  • Campus & Community

    Study mixed with cello

    Seoul native Hansung Ryu has returned home from Harvard after two months as an intern at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where he also found time for the Harvard Summer School Orchestra.

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  • Health

    Scientists discover “master switch” that triggers insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

    “We zeroed in on a factor called NF-kB,” said principal investigator Steven E. Shoelson, M.D., Ph.D., Helen and Morton Adler Chair and head of the Section on Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Joslin, and professor of Medicine at Harvard Medicine School. Shoelson said that activating NF-kB in the livers of laboratory animals incited inflammatory responses.…

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  • Health

    Researchers shed light on genetic defects that cause diabetes

    New findings by researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center visualize the protein that is mutated in most individuals having a form of diabetes called Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). “These findings, reported in the November 2002 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, provide a clear picture of why mutations cause diabetes and potential avenues…

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  • Health

    Common aspirin reveals mechanism of insulin resistance

    In 1876, a German professor described a treatment that led to rapid improvement in two men who were suffering from what doctors now recognize as classic type 2 diabetes. In the late 1950s, scattered reports about this treatment for diabetes symptoms again appeared in the medical literature; the results were equally dramatic. What was this…

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