hormone
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The Nobel season opens Monday with the medicine prize, which experts say could go to research into the GLP-1 appetite-regulating hormone behind weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The experimental injection, eloralintide, which mimics a hormone called amylin that helps signal fullness after eating, was studied in combination with a Zepbound shot in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Food and Drug Administration approved a generic competitor to its flagship Somatuline hormone drug earlier than expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
A lot of the so-called "problems" during teenage years are related to androgens, a hormone which, although present in girls, is more prevalent in boys.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Jam rubbed her upper arm as they stepped outside after the movie; the theater had been chilly, and sometimes the hormone implant in her arm ached when she got cold.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Bison, it turned out, could pay their own way as meat—leaner than beef, raised without added hormones, and increasingly sought by Americans favoring whole, unprocessed food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those properties stem from the way the plant's compounds - like 7-Hydroxymitragynine - activate various hormones, including dopamine.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The injectable drug mimics the body’s somatostatin hormone to treat disorders like slow-growing tumors and the overproduction of growth hormones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
They did not measure blood hormones or neural activity, so the study cannot show exactly which biological pathways were responsible for the changes in appetite and exercise performance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
They used HeLa to test the effects of steroids, chemotherapy drugs, hormones, vitamins, and environmental stress; they infected them with tuberculosis, salmonella, and the bacterium that causes vaginitis.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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