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Researchers Gear Up Galaxy-seeking Robots for a Test Run

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Berkeley Lab-assembled ‘ProtoDESI’ to serve as model for planned array of 5,000 robots wielding fiber-optic cables.

A prototype system, designed as a test for a planned array of 5,000 galaxy-seeking robots, is taking shape at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). (more…)

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Leptin also influences brain cells that control appetite, Yale researchers find

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Twenty years after the hormone leptin was found to regulate metabolism, appetite, and weight through brain cells called neurons, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that the hormone also acts on other types of cells to control appetite.

Published in the June 1 issue of Nature Neuroscience, the findings could lead to development of treatments for metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes. (more…)

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