Living with Type 1 diabetes requires constant monitoring of blood sugar levels and injecting insulin daily. Now scientists are reporting in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemi... Read more
Scientists have developed the first ultra-thin, flexible device that sticks to skin like a rub-on tattoo and can detect a person’s glucose levels. The sensor, reported in a proof-of-co... Read more
In the fall of 1999, a young chemical engineer named Todd Zion left his job at Eastman Kodak to enroll in the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While looking for a... Read more
Treatment reverses symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice without side effects. In mice with diet-induced diabetes—the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans—a single injection of the protein... Read more
Investigators at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found a therapy that reverses new onset Type 1 diabetes in mouse models Investigators at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found... Read more
A wearable, experimental device passed a real-world test, constantly monitoring blood sugar and automatically giving insulin or a sugar-boosting drug as needed, doctors say. Scientists have... Read more
Since insulin’s crucial discovery nearly a century ago, countless diabetes patients have had to inject themselves with the life-saving medicine. Now scientists are reporting a new developmen... Read more
“This is hopefully a big step toward giving diabetics a more painless method of maintaining healthy blood sugar levels,” A new nanotechnology-based technique for regulating blood sugar in di... Read more
Researchers have developed a drug delivery technique for diabetes treatment in which a sponge-like material surrounds an insulin core. The sponge expands and contracts in response to blood s... Read more
In a promising development for diabetes treatment, researchers have developed a network of nanoscale particles that can be injected into the body and release insulin when blood-sugar levels... Read more
A Lund University research team has shed new light on why gastric bypass often sends diabetes into remission rapidly, opening the door to developing treatment with the same effect. 85% of pa... Read more
Japanese researchers have developed a technique to reshape living cells into thread form, which could prove to be a boon to transplants one day. By giving three-dimensional form to the threa... Read more
Technology Designed in Germany May Help People with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes; Described in Review of Scientific Instruments One of the keys to healthful living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabe... Read more
In the future, home-assisted living for the elderly could take a very unusual form. Researchers have developed a system that can track down reading glasses or the front door key, analyze hea... Read more
Can have a great impact on the treatment of type 1 diabetes IRCM researchers, led by endocrinologist Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, were the first to conduct a trial comparing a dual-hormone artifi... Read more
