For more than 20 years scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of how insulin binds to the insulin receptor, a …
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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 …
TNF, BCG, and You and Me: An In-Depth Look at the Faustman Lab Research
And here’s where things get interesting for a cure-seeking diabetic: when scientists saw that cells were flooding islets…
Faustman Lab Research: How Excited Should You Be?
Last week, diabetes headlines were dominated by a new study from the Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, pub…
Treatment With Generic Vaccine May Temporarily Reverse Type 1 Diabetes
A phase I clinical trial, led by Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Immunobi…
Immunomodulators for Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes: An Overview
In the 1980s, studies demonstrated that suppressing the immune system of people recently diagnosed with T1D reduced thei…
JDRF and Novo Nordisk to Collaborate on Type 1 Diabetes Immunotherapies Research
JDRF and Novo Nordisk have announced that they are partnering in an attempt to discover and develop novel immunotherapie…