The biomaterial holding the islet cells—which is completely synthetic, is 96 percent water, and which Garcia described a…
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Dee and Bill Brehm: Working Toward a Type 1 Diabetes Cure
One Sunday evening in 1999, as Dee was preparing dinner, Bill entered their kitchen and asked if he could do anything to…
Discovery of Betatrophin: A New Hope for Beta Cell Replication
Dr. Doug Melton's group at Harvard, which has made many advances in our understanding of stem cell and beta cell biology…
Does Sugar Cause Diabetes?
Does eating too much sugar cause diabetes? It’s not entirely clear, but a population-based study published February 27 i…
Diamyd to Launch New Clinical Study of Diabetes Vaccine in Children
Diamyd Medical is planning to launch a new clinical study with its diabetes vaccine, Diamyd, during February 2013.
The …
Diabetes Research Breakthrough: How Insulin Binds
For more than 20 years scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of how insulin binds to the insulin receptor, a …
What Triggers Type 2 Diabetes? New Research From UCSB
A group of biomedical researchers at UC Santa Barbara is studying the metabolism of cells and their surrounding tissue, …
T1D Exchange and Sanofi Team Up For Study Of Diabetes Care in Young Patients
T1D Exchange, a non-profit organization focused on type 1 diabetes, and Sanofi have joined forces in the TEENs registry …
Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Prevention Study Open to Younger Children
Incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing and the disease is presenting at earlier ages. Each year, in the U.S. alone, …
An In-Depth Look at the Faustman Lab Research – Part 2
Faustman holds that BCG vaccination's primary role in this case is to induce TNF-a expression, and that TNF-a's primary …
