The first few months of life are a very important period in terms of human development, and at this point, many of the most ...

At the end of the year, the number of dinners and drinks is increasing. As it is easy to drink more than usual, the risk of ...

This year, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) officially recognized a fifth form of diabetes, after decades of ...

GLP-1, a glucagon-like peptide-1 secreted in the small intestine, promotes insulin production in the pancreas, thereby ...

Is it possible to create a human pancreas in the lab that secretes hormones just like a real one? Associate Professor Riccardo Levato aims to make this a reality. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant ...

When Amanda Smith walked into the kitchen one night in 2015 to warm up a bottle for her four-month-old daughter, she couldn’t make out the numbers on the microwave. They were blurry. They’d never been ...

A breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes treatment shows promise. Scientists in Sweden have successfully transplanted gene-edited islet cells into a patient. These cells produced insulin without triggering ...

Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh, M.D./Ph.D. student with Professor Mark Huising, watches undergraduate student Joel Sanchez working at a dissecting microscope. New work led by Pourhosseinzadeh and Huising ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says. Scientists at Duke ...

Mor than 800 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, with numbers steadily increasing. Diabetic patients experience abnormally high ...

A study by researchers from the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS, Mayo Clinic, IBYME (CONICET), and CaixaResearch Institute demonstrates the role of the Galectin-1 protein in the ...

February was heart months, and this is another column in a series about the major risk factors for heart attacks. According to the effective Bale-Doneen Method of heart attack prevention, 70% of heart ...