Diabetes
Study reveals obesity-related trigger that can lead to diabetes
People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is not well understood.
Jan 11, 2023
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News tagged with beta cells
Neuroscience
Targeting tau, the other protein behind Alzheimer's disease
In November, researchers reported the drug lecanemab slowed the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The effect was modest, but it has generated tremendous excitement because it was the first time a drug had been shown to ...
Dec 27, 2022
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Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease can be diagnosed before symptoms emerge
A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that people with Alzheimer's disease can now be identified before they experience any symptoms. It is now also possible to predict who will deteriorate within the next ...
Nov 11, 2022
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Medications
A promising drug candidate discovered for the prevention of type 1 diabetes
According to a study, type 1 diabetes could be prevented by inhibiting a gene associated with the onset of the disease. A drug based on the same mechanism has already been approved for the treatment of another autoimmune ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Genetics
Researchers investigate brain's immune cell response in Alzheimer's disease
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are investigating how the deficiency of a gene in immune cells can shape the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
Nov 3, 2022
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Genetics
Examining the beta cell whisperer gene and its implications for future diabetes therapy
Diabetes, which affects millions of people worldwide, develops when the body either generates insufficient amounts of the hormone insulin– a hormone that maintains healthy blood sugar—or when the body cannot effectively ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Genetics
Diabetes-causing gene can be regulated like a rheostat
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Imperial College London have found a switch that regulates the activity of a gene that causes diabetes. The findings, published in Nature Cell Biology, highlight ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Medical research
Pancreatic image bank expected to help advance diabetes research worldwide
The most extensive image bank of samples of the pancreas from children who developed diabetes shortly before death has gone live at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with the aim to advance global medical research in ...
Oct 14, 2022
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Medical research
New research details the microbial origins of Type 1 diabetes
Almost a decade ago, UO graduate student Jennifer Hampton Hill made a fortuitous find: A protein made by gut bacteria that triggered insulin-producing cells to replicate. The protein was an important clue to the biological ...
Oct 13, 2022
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Overweight & Obesity
Insufficient insulin processing leads to obesity
Obesity increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body's insulin production contribute ...
Sep 1, 2022
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