A new cell-transplant procedure is showing early signs of success in helping people with Type 1 diabetes live without insulin ...

A combination of blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely ...

The autoimmune disorder destroys the body’s ability to produce insulin. Some patients in experimental trials have gotten it ...

When cells copy DNA to produce RNA transcripts, some stretches of the genetic material are included—these are known as exons—but the rest is thrown out. The resulting transcript is a fully mature RNA ...

Daily insulin injections are painful and inconvenient, which is why scientists are developing implants that treat diabetes without any need for needles. A new one looks particularly promising, as it ...

Pluristyx's platform technology was developed specifically to overcome this challenge. This Breakthrough T1D collaboration will fund the use of precise gene editing to engineer Pluristyx's exclusively ...

When Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and Dr. Vijay Yechoor of Baylor College of Medicine used a special gene therapy to induce the livers of mice with diabetes to make islet or beta cells, they knew they were ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied pancreatic islet cell loss in people with no previous pancreatic problems. They identified key trends in the types of cells ...

A synthetic antioxidant developed by researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center improves the survival of islet cells used in transplants for diabetes. The findings, reported in the ...