2.23.2010

Dolphins turn diabetes on and off.

 
Dolphins are second only to humans in the ratio between body and brain size. They are very intelligent animals and very similar to us; even both animals are mammals, people and these clever animals have very different metabolisms.
It is said that dolphins have a type of diabetes 2 that they can switch on and switch off by the way they need it. In other words: they turn it on and produce insulin during their night, and turn it off after breakfast the next morning. 




I’ve always liked dolphins, I find them very amusing animals. Actually I love animals, except of bees, spiders... you know, all those creepy crawlies.
In my opinion, it’s great to investigate how to solve human illnesses with animal resources; they are more helpful than we think. The pity is that not all cures are discovered already... And before scientists and researchers discover the solution for an illness, there are a lot of people dying for it, who will never enjoy life as future patients will be able to do.
Research is a very important branch of science. Humans are able to control illnesses and solve them, but the question is how many time will we be waiting before we find a solution for cancers, AIDS, malaria and all those lethal and grave illness?


Bloodstreams: torrent sanguini
Kidney: fallo renal
Overnight: nit

1 comments:

Júlia said...

oooh, lovely dolphins! you know i'm not so keen with animals but dolphins are an exceptioon!lol
nodoby knows how much will we have to wait for a cure to all those illnesses, but i'm sure they'll fins it some day!
love ya honeey!xoxo