Our glycaemic balance is based on the ability of the pancreatic beta cells to detect glucose and secrete insulin to maintain our blood sugar levels. If these cells malfunction, the balance is broken, ...

Stress does no one - not even your insulin-producing cells - any good. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have identified a gene that, when activated by metabolic stress, damages ...

In a proof of concept that may reshape the treatment landscape for insulin-dependent diabetes, scientists have demonstrated that human stomach cells can be reprogrammed to secrete insulin—potentially ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

A new therapy for type 1 diabetes could nix the need for insulin injections. Just a single infusion of lab-grown pancreatic cells let patients’ bodies make all the insulin they needed, scientists ...

Insulin resistance is concomitant with type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and other features of the metabolic syndrome. Because insulin resistance is associated with cardiovascular disease, both ...

That finding raised a question. Could TMA be linked to the strange lack of liver inflammation? To find out, the scientists ...

A man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient to produce his own insulin after receiving genetically engineered cell transplants, without needing drugs to prevent rejection. The case, ...

Pancreatic islets from adult mice. On the left, islet composed of different types of endocrine cells. Right: pancreatic islet composed solely of beta cells. Our glycaemic balance is based on the ...