Thousands of blood, saliva, urine, mucus and stool samples contributed by “TEDDY” kids from around the world are finally starting to bear fruit.…
Category: Research
April’s announcement that insulin maker Eli Lilly would invest up to $473 million in Sigilon Therapeutics and the cell encapsulation technology…
In the toolkit of methods for successfully treating diabetes, insulin is not the only hammer available to hit the nail on the head. Researchers…
One of the holy grails of diabetes research – reversing Type 1 diabetes without the use of immune-suppressing drugs – may have gotten a little bit…
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…
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…
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…