A landmark discovery about how insulin docks on cells could help in the development of improved types of insulin for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. For the first time, researchers have ...

Diabetes is caused by either the loss of the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas, leading to a deficiency of insulin (type 1 diabetes), or insulin resistance, reduced insulin sensitivity, and ...

A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar. Understanding these feedback loops could improve the lives of people with ...

Chronically high levels of insulin, as is found in many people with obesity and Type II diabetes, may block specific hormones that trigger energy release into the body, according to researchers at the ...

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time in humans, these islet cells have been genetically edited so ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...

THE appearance of a second edition of this little work eighteen months after the first is itself a good recommendation, and this favourable impression is confirmed on closer acquaintance. It fills a ...

As Science reports, the finding began serendipitously, when a Dutch man being treated for obsessive-compulsive disorder with deep brain stimulation (DBS) found that his diabetes symptoms also improved ...

Donald F. Steiner (M.S. ’56, M.D. ’56), a world-renowned scientist who made important discoveries in diabetes research, died on November 11 at the age of 84. Steiner earned a master’s degree in ...

A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar.