http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)— A new bioengineered, miniature organ dubbed the BioHub might one day offer people with type 1 diabetes freedom from their disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mini-organ-mimic-pancreas-diabetes.html Medical research Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:50:01 EST news281714644 (Medical Xpress)—People at risk for Type 1 diabetes may have fewer insulin-producing "beta" cells than people not at risk, a finding that could help researchers shed light on what causes the disease, a new University of Florida study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pancreas-size-diabetes.html Diabetes Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:46:29 EST news274517182 A diabetes specialist and Artificial Intelligence expert have collaborated to test the prototype of an artificial pancreas. Should a planned clinical study and clinical trial support the excellent 'simulated' results obtained so far, this breakthrough could one day change the lives of millions of people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-quest-artificial-pancreas.html Medical research Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:01:06 EST news271965658 Australian scientists have confirmed a 'weak link' in the immune system – identifying the exact conditions under which an infection can trigger an autoantibody response, a process not clearly understood until now. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-infection-trigger-autoimmune-disease.html Immunology Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:01:04 EST news271677651 (HealthDay)—Given that about one in 12 Americans has diabetes, chances are good you know someone with some form of the disease. But you may be less informed about the different types of diabetes and their causes and treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-diabetes-patients-woes.html Diabetes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:30:01 EST news265540499 In type 1 diabetes (T1D), pancreatic beta cells die from a misguided autoimmune attack, but how and why that happens is still unclear. Now, JDRF-funded scientists from the Indiana University School of Medicine have found that a specific type of cellular stress takes place in pancreatic beta cells before the onset of T1D, and that this stress response in the beta cell may in fact help ignite the autoimmune attack. These findings shed an entirely new light into the mystery behind how changes in the beta cell may play a role in the earliest stages of T1D, and adds a new perspective to our understanding how T1D progresses, and how to prevent and treat the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-beta-cell-stress-trigger-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:39:04 EST news251653138 An experimental cure for Type 1 diabetes has a nearly 80 percent success rate in curing diabetic mice. The results, to be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston, offer possible hope of curing a disease that affects 3 million Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-gene-therapy-reverses-diabetes-mice.html Medical research Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:53:19 EST news226572254