Diabetes running wild
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An epidemic of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) on Nauru Island in the Pacific shows how a non-infectious disease can spread rapidly, provides an instance of natural selection acting on humans and indicates a major threat to health in developing countries. NIDDM now affects more than 60% of Nauru's population due to the adoption of a Western lifestyle marked by a lack of exercise, consumption of high-caloric foods and obesity which are the disease's prime risk factors. The adoption of these unhealthful habits in other developing countries suggests that the NIDDM epidemic may spread.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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The language steamrollers
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It is believed that most existing Old World languages are descendants of some 16 languages that existed during the early Holocene linguistic period some 10,000 years ago. A new study suggests that a so-called Indo-European steamroller erased Europe's linguistic diversity. Its success is thought to be attributed to the local origins of global agriculture, with farmers spreading from the few agricultural homelands to overpower or replace the traditional hunter-gatherers in other areas. Basque, a living language, is the only survivor in Western Europe of the diversity erased by the steamroller.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Wet transport proteins
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It has previously been established that water transport through sheets of epithelial cells proceeds in accordance with cell ultrastructure. An experiment on the mechanism of water transport which monitored the flow of glucose as a solute, however, revealed that massive coupling of water flow to solute transport occurs even in an epithelial system that is devoid of its ultrastructure. Such finding thus indicates that the solute, being a transporter, also co-transports water.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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