Our immune systems weaken as we get older, making fewer cells that fight infection and help us recover from illness and ...

The insects can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without increasing their blood sugar. What’s going on in their ...

Oral semaglutide cuts major heart risks in people with type 2 diabetes by 14%, offering a powerful pill-based option. Both ...

“Our CB-SCs can target different compartments of the immune system, educating and correcting their dysfunctions at a fundamental level,” says Dr. Zhao. “This therapy has the potential to revolutionize ...

From the Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, University Heart Center Freiburg, Germany (D.W.) Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany (D.W.) K. Ley has received research funding for ...

From the Black Women’s Health Imperative Type 2 diabetes is a preventable, chronic condition that, if not managed, can cause complications — some of which can be life threatening. But diabetes ...

Credit: Andrii Yalanskyi via Getty Images. Vertex Pharmaceuticals has discontinued the development of VX-264, a type 1 diabetes (T1D) cell therapy delivered via an implantable device, after clinical ...

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Tay and his team looked to microneedles for drug delivery into chronic wounds, as well as for extracting harmful cells from those sites. Tay noted that this approach is "minimally invasive ...

But the immune system may get confused for many reasons. In Type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakes the body’s healthy cells for foreign ones and tries to fight them. In this case ...