Personalized therapies for diabetes, while showing promise in international studies, is met with healthy skepticism from ...

Obesity increases the body's need for insulin, forcing cells in the pancreas known as beta cells to ramp up insulin ...

Sana Biotechnology’s investigational allogeneic islet cell therapy has survived and secreted insulin for more than one year ...

Diabetes develops when the body fails to manage its blood glucose levels. One form of diabetes causes the body to not produce insulin at all. Called Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, this autoimmune disease ...

Just as insulin therapy revolutionized life for people with type I diabetes (TID) a century ago, a new implant may one day do the same by tackling the disease’s biggest challenge—keeping transplanted ...

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, ...

Researchers engineered immune cells that protect insulin-producing cell transplants, bringing scientists closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes.

A chronic and lifelong disease, type 1 diabetes is a condition that causes people to have high levels of sugar in their blood. The MedlinePlus explains that it can occur at any age, to children, ...

Researchers have identified a specific hormone produced by pancreatic beta cells as a direct driver of obesity-linked ...

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 ...