The process the scientists used to identify chemical structures able to reprogram insulin resistant cells. Credit: Kuang-Ting Kuo Using a blend of computer modeling, structural and cell-based studies, scientists at…
Researchers from the University of Florida’s Diabetes Institute have found an important clue for why the body’s immune system destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, which leads to Type 1…
Scientists analyzing human and mouse pancreatic lymph nodes (PLNs) and spleens have identified a distinct subset of CD4 memory helper T cells associated with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Reported by…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the body’s insulin-producing cells are…
Understanding how the cells that control blood sugar work is crucial to preventing and treating diabetes. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now developed a technique that makes it possible to…
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…
Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs. By Elie Dolgin Elie Dolgin is a science journalist in Somerville, Massachusetts. ]]> In…
Cornell researchers have developed an implant system that can treat Type 1 diabetes by supplying extra oxygen to densely packed insulin-secreting cells, without the need for immunosuppression. The system could…
A new treatment for type 1 diabetes is moving closer to reality. In late 2024, a 46-year-old Swedish man received 17 injections of a unique pancreatic cell cocktail. The cells,…
In type 1 diabetes, insulin-producing beta cells (orange, lower left) in the pancreas (upper left) send out signals called exosomes (yellow dots). Immune sentinels called dendritic cells (large whitish cell,…