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
A joint effort between diabetes doctors and biomedical engineers could revolutionize how people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels in check Painful insulin injections could become a... Read more
Ability to produce embryonic stem cells will allow researchers to push faster toward cure Harvard stem cell researchers announced today that they have made a giant leap forward in the quest... Read more
Researchers have invented a cheap, portable, microchip-based test for diagnosing type-1 diabetes that could speed up diagnosis and enable studies of how the disease develops. An inexpensive,... 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
Gladstone scientists reprogram skin cells into insulin-producing pancreas cells A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what must be don... Read more
Tiny worms could be key to solving Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune ailments There is a new weapon in the fight against autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis,... Read more
Animal-to-human transplant of insulin-producing cells without use of drugs is ultimate goal In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with ty... Read more
Researchers have made a significant first step with newly engineered biomaterials for cell transplantation that could help lead to a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3... Read more
The patient can wear the sensor for weeks, or even months. Pricking a finger everyday is just part of everyday life for many diabetes patients. A non-invasive measurement approach could rele... Read more
Portable artificial pancreas A University of Virginia-developed artificial pancreas that could potentially automate care for millions of Type 1 diabetes patients has received U.S. Food and D... Read more
Diabetes Breakthrough Young Tunisian researcher Najib Ben Brahim of the University of Virginia, USA, developed a new artificial pancreas device which became a breakthrough discovery to cure... Read more
If a just-announced research project is successful, then maybe – just maybe – diabetics will finally be free of having to perform daily finger prick blood tests and insulin injec... Read more