UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Jenny Ting, PhD, and colleagues, publish a new approach to weight loss and diabetes prevention. Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine discovere... Read more
What if instead of daily insulin injections or wearing pumps, just getting a shot every few months could reverse Type 1 diabetes for you – or your dog? It might take ushering in healthy panc... Read more
People with diabetes could be able to monitor their blood sugar without drawing blood using a system now being developed at the University of Waterloo. In a recent study, researchers combine... Read more
Orally administered material temporarily coats the intestine, reduces blood sugar spikes in preclinical study Over the last decade, bariatric surgeons have made strides in performing weight... Read more
Shape-conforming hydrogel leverages the body’s own healing mechanisms rather than releasing drugs or biologics A simple scrape or sore might not cause alarm for most people. But for diabetic... Read more
Carbs, Fats and Protein: One molecule to rule them all? Duke researchers have identified a key fork in the road for the way the liver deals with carbohydrates, fats and protein. They say it... Read more
Scientists have created a non-invasive, adhesive patch, which promises the measurement of glucose levels through the skin without a finger-prick blood test. Scientists have created a non-inv... Read more
Common blood pressure medicine blocks molecule that can trigger the disease A drug commonly used to control high blood pressure may also help prevent the onset of Type 1 diabetes in up to 60... Read more
The team lead by Sílvia Vilares Conde, from CEDOC-NOVA Medical School, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Galvani Bioelectronics, demonstrated through findings in rats that is... Read more
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, resulting in high blood levels of glucose. A study publishe... Read more
For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily insulin injections are literally a matter of life and death. And while there is no cure, a Cornell-led research tea... Read more
NIH animal study shows dissolvable microneedles trigger body’s own insulin response For millions of people with type 2 diabetes, ongoing vigilance over the amount of sugar, or glucose, in th... Read more
Approach could also be applied to reversing aging and age-related diseases such as hearing loss and macular degeneration Salk scientists have created a new version of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome... Read more
In a new study, a Yale-led research team uncovers how a very low calorie diet can rapidly reverse type 2 diabetes in animal models. If confirmed in people, the insight provides potential new... Read more
Microneedle skin patch that delivers fat-shrinking drug locally could be used to treat obesity and diabetes Researchers have devised a medicated skin patch that can turn energy-storing white... Read more
