A financial instrument’s beta is a measure of its risk or volatility when compared to the wider market. It is mainly used in the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), a popular financial model used to ...

The term beta diversity has been used to refer to a wide variety of phenomena. Although all of these encompass some kind of compositional heterogeneity between places, many are not related to each ...

BOSTON - (May 30, 2019) --Research from Joslin Diabetes Center has shown in mice that insulin resistance increases the proportion of aged beta-cells which are dysfunction. Such an increase in aged ...

A new study has identified a promising drug target for a common chronic illness that could shield insulin-producing cells ...

Encapsulating human stem-cell-derived beta cells in microcapsules made with an immune-cell-repelling protein restored glucose metabolism in diabetic mice and protected the cells from immune system ...