With the incidence of type 2 diabetes increasing alarmingly, science is looking to genetics to better understand the processes underlying this chronic illness. A new study has isolated a gene not ...

People with Type 1 diabetes lose insulin-producing beta cells due to an autoimmune reaction, forcing lifelong dependence on ...

In a medical first, researchers report that they have implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type 1 diabetes. The cells pumped out sugar-regulating insulin for months — without the ...

A proof-of-concept study finds that donated insulin-producing cells can be genetically modified to avoid provoking the recipient's immune system. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A new case study ...

Vertex could be “leading the path to insulin independence," according to analysts, after another batch of data showed that the off-the-shelf diabetes cell therapy stimulated insulin production in all ...

Stress does no one - not even your insulin-producing cells - any good. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have identified a gene that, when activated by metabolic stress, damages ...

Researchers have successfully coerced pancreatic cells of a type 1 diabetic donor to produce insulin. Their strategy could lead to new therapies for patients with this disease. The research team, led ...

In a hospital in Sweden, surgeons made a small cut in a man’s forearm and injected millions of tiny clusters of donor cells. The 42-year-old had lived with type 1 diabetes for nearly 40 years, his ...

A potential new therapy for diabetics has been discovered that could prove to be a major breakthrough in the management of type 2 diabetes. The latest research centers on a specific gene, SMOC1. In ...