Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Diabetes researchers and bioinformaticians from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new ...

The results were very promising. In just three months, the number of human beta cells grew by 700%. The mice’s diabetes ...

Borrowing a cancer cell’s disguise, scientists shielded insulin-producing cells from attack by the immune system, a breakthrough that could pave the way for targeted type 1 diabetes treatments without ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease in which the body mistakenly attacks itself as the immune system destroys the pancreas's insulin ...

Our glycaemic balance is based on the ability of the pancreatic beta cells to detect glucose and secrete insulin to maintain our blood sugar levels. If these cells malfunction, the balance is broken, ...

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 4 (UPI) --Argentine scientists have identified a mechanism that allows pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin, to become resistant to damage. The finding opens the door to new ...

Can we predict—and prevent—why transplanted beta cells fail? A preclinical study titled “ChemPerturb-seq screen identifies a small molecule cocktail enhancing human beta cell survival after ...

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