In the toolkit of methods for successfully treating diabetes, insulin is not the only hammer available to hit the nail o…
Research
In Mice, Gene Therapy Can Reverse Type 1 Diabetes Without Immunosuppression
One of the holy grails of diabetes research – reversing Type 1 diabetes without the use of immune-suppressing drugs – ma…
Having Friends May Protect You From Type 2 Diabetes
Make a friend, avoid diabetes? It’s not quite that simple, but a new study finds that social interaction with a circle o…
Cow’s Milk Baby Formula Doesn’t Increase Risk of Developing Type 1 Diabetes
The cause of type 1 diabetes is still unknown, but for many years, researchers have been studying ways to prevent it. (S…
Are Microbiome Changes a Cause or Symptom of Type 1 Diabetes? (part 2)
Two years ago, I interviewed Alex Kostic, who was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard e…
Are Microbiome Changes a Cause or Symptom of Type 1 Diabetes?
Two years ago, I interviewed Alex Kostic, who was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard e…
Infusing Donor Islets into Muscles: A New Direction for Islet Cell Transplants?
After failing to live up to its early promise of becoming a cure for type 1 diabetes, the procedure of transplanting ins…
What is Type 3c Diabetes?
A group of scientists is warning that doctors need to be more aware of a type of diabetes that has been newly studied in…
Could Engineered Bacteria Implanted into Human Skin Produce Insulin?
Microscopic organisms can do amazing stuff. Yeast is instrumental in baking bread and brewing beer. Bacteria make yogurt…
How Gene Editing Might Reshape Diabetes Treatment
The public was agog – and a little nervous – when the announcement came out this summer that researchers had “edited” th…