Great strides have been made recently in predicting who is most likely to develop type 1 diabetes, allowing researchers …
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Biodel to Produce Glucagon Rescue Product
Biodel has announced plans to submit a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA in 2015 for a novel glucagon rescue device …
Type 2 Diabetes in Youth More Aggressive Than in Adults, Even When Treated
According to a series of study results being published in a special issue of Diabetes Care youth with type 2 diabetes e…
Cure for Type 1 Diabetes and MS? Discovery of Immune Suppressing Protein CD52
Dr. Harrison and his team identified that some T cells express a molecule on their surfaces, CD52, that is capable of su…
Islet Cell Transplant Progress May Lead to Type 1 Diabetes Cure
The biomaterial holding the islet cells—which is completely synthetic, is 96 percent water, and which Garcia described a…
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 …
