Make a friend, avoid diabetes? It’s not quite that simple, but a new study finds that social interaction with a circle of friends and family has a…
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The diabetes device company, Tandem Diabetes Care, manufacturer of the only touchscreen insulin pumps available in the United States, today…
The cause of type 1 diabetes is still unknown, but for many years, researchers have been studying ways to prevent it. (See here for a list of pediatric…
Two years ago, I interviewed Alex Kostic, who was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard exploring the microbiome’s…
Two years ago, I interviewed Alex Kostic, who was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard exploring the microbiome’s…
After failing to live up to its early promise of becoming a cure for type 1 diabetes, the procedure of transplanting insulin-producing islet cells…
In October, JDRF took the organization’s first step into the burgeoning world of DIY diabetes technology when it announced a new initiative to…
A group of scientists is warning that doctors need to be more aware of a type of diabetes that has been newly studied in recent years, which they say…
Microscopic organisms can do amazing stuff. Yeast is instrumental in baking bread and brewing beer. Bacteria make yogurt. And now, thanks to synthetic…
The public was agog – and a little nervous – when the announcement came out this summer that researchers had “edited” the genes of human embryos,…