Category: Diabetes Research News
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Inhaled Insulin Powder Now Available in Pharmacies
PARIS and VALENCIA, Calif. — Afrezza, an inhaled insulin powder, is now available by prescription in U.S. retail pharmacies, Sanofi…
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Steering Stem Cell Trafficking Into Pancreas Reverses Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers develop ‘GPS’ method to guide mesenchymal stem cells to inflammatory sites. Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham…
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Islet Cell Transplantation After Pancreas Removal May Help Preserve Normal Blood Sugar
Surgery to remove all or part of the pancreas and then transplant a patient’s own insulin-producing islet cells appears to be a safe…
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Detection of Enterovirus Infection in Insulin Producing Cells in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
Norwegian scientists with European partners have found evidence for the presence of Enterovirus in pancreatic islets…
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Novel Type 1 Diabetes Treatment Shown to Work on Human Beta Cells Transplanted Into Mice
A chemical produced in the pancreas that prevented and even reversed type 1 diabetes in mice had the same effect on…
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Type 1 Diabetes Increasing As Medical Teams Shrink
Before heading off to swim practice, Brian Lybeck of Avon tests his blood glucose level, which will tell him how much…
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Dr. Donald F. Steiner, Diabetes Researcher, Dies at 84
Dr. Donald F. Steiner, a researcher whose discoveries transformed scientists’ understanding of insulin and other hormones and…
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Beta-O2 Testing Cure For Type 1 Diabetes
Imagine if those with type 1 diabetes no longer had to worry about insulin injections. Posted By Abigail Klein Leichman…
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Dr. Todd Brusko’s Project Fully Funded on Day 1
Donors were so excited to read about Dr. Brusko’s project, “Can we engineer a patient’s immune cells to stop the autoimmune attack…
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Mad Scientists and Their Diabetes Breakthroughs
Imagine popping a pill covered in tiny steel needles – that you cannot in any way feel – to quickly and effectively lower your…
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Type 1 Diabetes Discovery: Stem Cells Make Millions of Human Insulin Cells
As we are all aware, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the body destroys insulin-producing beta cells…
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Is Diabetes All in Your Head?
Researchers at Mount Sinai have identified a key mechanism behind diabetes that may start in the brain. Set of molecules found to…