Two years ago, I interviewed Alex Kostic, who was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard e…
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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…
New CDC Report Shows We’re Failing to Stop Diabetes
Close to half of all Americans have diabetes or are on the path to getting there, according to a new CDC report. Yet man…
JDRF Invests in TetraGenetics’ Innovative Approach to Type 1 Diabetes Prevention
A unique scientific approach to preventing, treating and, perhaps one day, curing type 1 diabetes is being coupled with …
A New Approach to Smart Insulin
Imagine a molecular container where the building blocks are glued together with a substance that’s sensitive to glucose:…
JDRF T1D Fund Invests in TetraGenetics
Today, TetraGenetics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for autoimmune diseases, announced it ha…
The Alarming Rise of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Teens
Having lived with type 1 diabetes since the age of four, I can say with certainty that, while it doesn’t stop me from li…