{"id":1242,"date":"2019-10-11T15:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:01","slug":"pollutants-and-diabetes-carleton-lab-makes-new-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2019\/pollutants-and-diabetes-carleton-lab-makes-new-discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollutants and Diabetes: Carleton Lab makes New Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Pollutants and Diabetes: Carleton Lab makes New Discoveries\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jenny-bruin\/\">Dr. Jenny Bruin<\/a> and her lab&#8217;s new discovery made the Newsroom last month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bruin&#8217;s research aims to better understand what environmental factors contribute to the onset and development of diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/pollutants-diabetes-1200w-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pollutants and Diabetes: Carleton Lab Makes New Discoveries\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her lab has recently discovered a relationship between gender and environmental pollutants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBasically, females seem like they don\u2019t adapt well to metabolic stress if they\u2019ve had exposure to this pollutant and we don\u2019t see the same thing in males,\u201d Bruin says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more, read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/\">Carleton&#8217;s Newsroom<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/pollutants-diabetes-new-discoveries\/\">Pollutants and Diabetes: Carleton Lab makes New Discoveries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jenny Bruin and her lab&#8217;s new discovery made the Newsroom last month! Dr. Bruin&#8217;s research aims to better understand what environmental factors contribute to the onset and development of diabetes. Her lab has recently discovered a relationship between gender and environmental pollutants. \u201cBasically, females seem like they don\u2019t adapt well to metabolic stress if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}