Diabetics must be based on a new unit when testing the blood glucose set. The HbA1c value indicates how well a patient's blood sugar about 8 to 12 weeks suspended - this is now the unit of percent to Millimol (mmol) per mole (mol) converted.

Diabetics must be based on a new unit when testing the blood glucose set. The HbA1c value indicates how well a patient's blood sugar about 8 to 12 weeks suspended - this is now the unit of percent to Millimol (mmol) per mole (mol) converted, shares the German Green Cross (DGK) in with Marburg. Previously had a value of 6.5 and less than good, or 8.5 percent more than bad. Henceforth, a HbA1c measured 20 to 42 mmol / mol for a normal, healthy blood sugar levels.

Diabetics have a new unit in the measurement of blood glucose used

Nails are made of magnesium and elastic for the body well tolerated. Therefore, with their special properties will allow for quick healing of fractures care. With currently available implants can be plates and nails may loosen or even re-break.

Looking through the microscope, it looks as if a Spülschwamm on the object makers. But it is a nail, a surgical nail on magnesium base, Dirk Bormann of the Institute for Materials Science of the Leibniz University of Hanover investigated. The material is, with its special properties in the future as the implant for a quick healing fractures care.

Tibia and fibula were here with a metal plate, screws and a "classic" nail care

To the DNA before permanent damage to protect cells have repair mechanisms of complex

External influences can change the genome of a cell damage. To the DNA before permanent damage to protect cells have repair mechanisms. But these processes do not work forever. Mistakes in DNA repair can lead to cancer. Unreparierte damage the cell contrast to age.

Damage in the genome can activate a genetic program, which was previously known, life-prolonging effect. Such mechanisms may include the development of cancer and thereby prevent the survival, such as age Cologne researchers discovered.

Diabetics monkeys temporarily not need insulin injections more if they pancreases of pigs Embyronen be planted. The young donor organs to resist the stress of transplantation better than their adult counterparts. Researchers nourish the hope of a new therapy for diabetes.

Reisner is also a scientific consultant and partner in the biotechnology company Tissera, which supported the work financially, and explained in accordance with the statutes of the journal financial interest in the work.

Israeli researchers have monkeys in the pancreases of pigs can grow. The artificially made diabetic animals is needed occasionally, then no more insulin injections, report Yair Reisner from the Weizman Institute in Rehovot, and colleagues. The immune system of the experimental monkeys tolerated the foreign institutions also better than adult pig transplants, the researchers write in the "Proceedings" of the U.S. Academy of Sciences. They hope that this new therapeutic avenues for diabetics revealed that the shortage of human donor organs around it.