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About eight million people live with type 1 diabetes (T1D) worldwide, a chronic autoimmune condition in which the body attacks and destroys its own insulin-producing β-cells (pronounced "beta") in the pancreas, leading to ...
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In a study published in Diabetes, Prof. Yuval Dor and his research team from Hebrew University have introduced a new approach for accurately assessing cell composition in the human pancreas and islets. The research addresses ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied pancreatic islet cell loss (ICL) in people with no previous pancreatic problems. They identified key trends in the types of cells lost due to islet cell loss in ...
Jan 15, 2024
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A recent study published in Cell Metabolism by researchers at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Bar-Ilan University and Vanderbilt University has developed a new paradigm for early stages of type 1 diabetes (T1D), ...
Dec 27, 2023
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Insulin is a hormone that decreases blood glucose levels. The only cells that produce insulin are pancreatic beta cells (β-cells), and a decrease in these cells is a major cause of diabetes. Although therapies aimed at increasing ...
Dec 4, 2023
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An innovative stem cell-based treatment for type 1 diabetes can meaningfully regulate blood glucose levels and reduce dependence on daily insulin injections, according to new clinical trial results from the University of ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba conducted a gene expression analysis at the single-cell level on pancreatic islets from prediabetic and diabetic mouse models. Their results are published in the journal Diabetes.
Nov 21, 2023
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Understanding how the human pancreas develops is crucial to allow scientists to make insulin producing–beta cells in the quest to cure type 1 diabetes. Now, scientists have made a unique and surprising discovery—a gene that ...
Nov 16, 2023
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More than 37 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association, 8.4 million Americans needed to take insulin in 2022 to lower their blood sugar. Insulin, however, is tricky to deliver ...
Nov 15, 2023
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A drug currently in clinical trials as a cancer therapy can also stimulate pancreatic beta cells to secrete insulin, revealing a previously unknown mechanism for insulin regulation in type 2 diabetes, according to a new study ...
Nov 9, 2023
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