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According to new research, the revolutionary new obesity drug semaglutide cuts the risk of type 2 diabetes by more than 50%.The risk of type 2 diabetes is reduced by more than half by weekly injections of the new obesity drug Wegovy (semaglutide). This is according to new research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Stockholm, Sweden (September 19-23).Semaglutide was recently approved in the US by the Food and Drug Administration as an obesity treatment and…

Cancer has long been part of the human story. But a new review has shown that, recently, something has shifted.Since 1990, the number of adults under the age of 50 developing cancer has increased dramatically around the world.What's concerning is that the increase in early-onset cancers doesn't seem to be slowing down – and improvements in screening alone don't seem to be able to fully explain the trend."We found that this risk is increasing with each generation," says one of the researchers, Shuji Ogino, a pathologist…

Project Solar doesn’t make solar panels, nor does it employ crews to plop them on roofs, but the startup argues it can shake up the residential solar business by steering clear of sales reps and automating parts of the ordering, design and installation process. Backed by $23 million in fresh Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital, Project Solar says it is on track to install 30 megawatts of solar this year, mostly in California and Texas, while apparently undercutting some of its competitors…

Despite the company's commitment to decrease its carbon footprint, Amazon's emissions grew by 18 percent last year, according to the annual sustainability report it released today. While online shopping increased during the pandemic’s second year, the company also rapidly expanded its number of warehousing operations — faster than consumer demand could support. For the entirety of 2021, the company’s activities emitted the equivalent of more than 71.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (for comparison, that's one and…

By Hebrew SeniorLife Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research July 27, 2022The study found that frailty risk can be decreased by a Mediterranean diet.Scientists believe it is important to create measures for frailty prevention and treatment since 10-15% of older adults become frail.Recent research indicated that eating a Mediterranean-style diet may reduce frailty. The study was published in The <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

The relatively small universe of human genes could grow by up to one-third, if a concerted effort to search for new genes that encode short proteins is successful. Many known miniproteins have already been shown to play key roles in cellular metabolism and disease, so the international effort to catalog new ones and determine their functions, announced last week in Nature Biotechnology, could shed light on a vast array of biochemical processes and provide targets for novel…

Researchers have created a technique that boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell, a ubiquitous programming environment created 50 years ago, by parallelizing the programs. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MITComputer scientists developed a new system that can make computer programs run faster, while guaranteeing <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>accuracy</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>How close the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics indicates that removing cash welfare from children when they reach age 18 greatly increases the chances that they will face criminal justice charges in subsequent years.   …