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Are you struggling to understand the real root cause of Type 2 Diabetes? For decades, the medical community has focused on …

Their findings pointed to microglia—the brain’s resident immune cells (pictured above)—as a key site of activity. This genetic pattern was consistent across developmental stages, from fetal life to adulthood. “The …

Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure share a genetic link, new research from the University of Surrey, UK and the Université de Lille, France shows. People with one condition …

Statistical power of the causal inference analysis across ancestries. Credit: Nature Metabolism (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01444-1 Numerous genetic studies have identified many risk variants for type 2 diabetes (T2D)—but which genes …

Credit: Clementa Moreno / EyeEm/Getty Images An international team led by researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Helmholtz Munich has identified hundreds of genetic drivers of type 2 …

Diabetes, a metabolic disease, is on the rise worldwide, and over 90 percent of cases are type 2 diabetes, in which the body does not effectively respond to insulin. Researchers …

A test using genetics to predict who is at the highest risk of developing type 1 diabetes could one day be applied to largescale health studies, to identify adults who …

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues …

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A common but often undiagnosed genetic condition may be causing delays in type 2 diabetes diagnoses and increasing the risk of serious complications for thousands of …