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Cholesterol plays a key role in regulating proteins involved in cell signaling and may be important to many other cell processes, an international team of researchers reported in Nature Communications.

Scientists have found three new and relatively rare genetic variants that influence insulin production. They offer new clues about the genetic factors behind diabetes, according to research published online in Nature Genetics.

Research out of George Washington University published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals another piece of the puzzle in a genetic developmental disorder that causes behavioral diseases such as autism.

New research published online in Neurology suggests that thinning of a retinal layer may show how fast multiple sclerosis (MS) is progressing in people with the disease. “This study suggests that retinal thinning, measured by in-office eye scans, called OCT, may occur at higher rates in people with earlier and more active MS,” said Robert Bermel, MD.