This achievement has profound implications for more than just one patient. Stem cell therapy has the potential to transform Type 1 diabetes treatment, shifting from symptom control to a cure ...

In my work as a diabetes researcher, my colleagues and I have found that making islets from stem cells can help overcome transplantation challenges. Islet transplantation for Type 1 diabetes was ...

The gold standard treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus is intensive insulin replacement. An alternative approach is to suppress the autoimmune reaction against pancreatic β-cells; this ...

Exposure to antibiotics during a key developmental window in infancy can stunt growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and may boost risk of diabetes later in life, new research in mice ...

CellTrans has claimed the first FDA approval for a cell therapy used to treat type 1 diabetes, consisting of insulin-producing islet beta cells taken from deceased donors. The Chicago-based ...

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks pancreatic beta cells. Type 2 diabetes happens when the body cannot use insulin effectively. The two types differ in symptoms, causes ...

A single piece of genetic material influences whether someone develops type 1 diabetes, Dutch researchers discovered. People ...

BeaGL was created by researchers at the University of California Davis and UC Davis Health who were inspired by their own ...

Over the last two and a half decades, advancements in stem cell biology and immunology have improved the potential for cell therapy as a treatment for diabetes. Stem cells from ... programmed cell ...

City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States and a top ...