Archive for December, 2008

Experimental Design and Why Sleep is Important

As you probably are aware, the number of Americans who develop Type II diabetes has steadily increased over the past two decades. Many people have attributed the typical American diet to the increase, but now researchers from Lund University in Sweden are proclaiming that a poor diet isn't the only contributing factor to the [...]

Murdering Mitochondria May Prevent Parkinson’s

We all know that mitochondria are responsible for the conversion of glucose to ATP in all living cells. But did you realize that mitochondria also play a role in determining whether a cell lives or dies? If a cell cannot convert glucose (or another energy bearing molecule, such as lipid) into ATP, it [...]