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Scientists have broadened our understanding of how weak cells bond with their more mature cellular counterparts to boost the body s production of insulin, improving our knowledge of the processes leading to type 2 diabetes - a significant global health problem.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus occurs when β-cells cannot release enough insulin - a tightly controlled process requiring hundreds of such cells clustered together to co-ordinate their response to signals from food, such as sugar, fat and gut hormones.
An international research team - led by scientists at the University of Birmingham - have discovered that immature β-cells (PDX1LOW/MAFALOW) are able to overcome their relative deficiencies by partnering with stronger counterparts to drive insulin release.
Vaccine Skepticism Helped Put Them in Power. Can They Inoculate Italy?
The Five Star Movement’s long history of sowing doubt about vaccines may have made Italy’s mass inoculation program that much harder. The irony is not lost on Italians.
Vaccinations underway at a hospital in Piacenza, Italy, last month.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021
ROME Over a decade ago, an activist in Italy’s Five Star Movement wrote to the nascent party’s leaders to tell them that his law firm, after years of seeking “damages from vaccination,” had convinced a judge that a vaccine was a potential source of autism.
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For every product sold in its Paula s Ibiza collection between May and August 2020, Loewe is donating 40 euros to educational projects in collaboration with Plataforma de Infancia, with an initial donation of 500,000 euros. This alliance of social organisations works to protect children s rights and will be launching a series of education programs this summer to reduce inequality and school dropouts. Loewe is also producing non-surgical masks in its Getafe factory to be distributed between volunteer workers, and Loewe workers and their families.
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The French fashion house is producing hospital gowns in its atelier in Paris, which will be provided to frontline workers in six Parisian hospitals who are taking care of patients suffering from Covid-19. 20 volunteers are working to create thousands of gowns, which will act as part of medical officials protective equipment.