Recent clinical trials have shown promising results of transplanting these cells into individuals with Type 1 diabetes: ...

Type 2 diabetes has become one of the biggest global health problems of modern times. More than half a billion people ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and estimated to affect 9.5 million people worldwide. Low insulin levels allow ...

Researchers evaluated an allogeneic umbilical cord cell therapy in T1DM. A single dose provided durable insulin preservation, ...

On March 16, Prof. James Lo, pharmacology cell and developmental biology, and his team published a study identifying different types of cells in the pancreas, an organ responsible for aiding digestion ...

Growing evidence suggests it takes a sustained viral infection in the right genetic environment to lead to type 1 diabetes.

How does obesity affect insulin production? Researchers are shining light on new stages of the ERK pathway. Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key ...

For the roughly 8.7 million people worldwide living with type 1 diabetes, daily life revolves around a problem their bodies ...

Stem cell-derived pancreatic islets are being studied as a rich transplantable source for insulin production, a therapeutic for type 1 diabetes that overcomes the need to obtain islet cells from ...

A hallmark of Type 2 diabetes is the progressive loss of beta cell mass: cells in the pancreas that produce and release insulin. The endoplasmic reticulum stress response, a cellular pathway that ...

Prof. Heiko Lickert is the director of the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research at Helmholtz Munich, professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and member of the German Center ...

Three years ago, the inceptor protein was discovered and its role as an inhibitor of the insulin signaling pathway was described. Inceptor and the insulin receptor are located on the surface of beta ...