To keep your blood sugar level in check, a specific type of cell in your pancreas secretes insulin in response to any sugar ...

In a small cell therapy trial, 10 out of 12 people with type 1 diabetes no longer needed supplemental insulin, even a year after treatment.

A dozen volunteers with severe type 1 diabetes showed clear improvements in their condition 12 months after receiving a ...

Amanda Smith has kicked insulin to the curb in what experts are calling a milestone in the fight against Type 1 diabetes.

In 2010, Herrera and his researchers discovered that if beta cells die prematurely, the pancreatic cells responsible for producing other hormones such as glucagon, which counteracts insulin’s ...

CHICAGO -- An investigational allogeneic stem cell-derived islet-cell therapy helped almost all patients with type 1 diabetes ...

On the right a portion of a beta cell (b), with its characteristic crystalline secretory granules, is seen (X1 4,000). Detail of an alpha-cell secretory granule is in the lower right corner (X100 ...

(A) Overview of the seven-stage differentiation protocol performed in a 3D culture system. (B) Frequency of C-peptide (C-pep) and glucagon (GCG) positive cells in 5 cell lines (HUES8, RC9, LUMC ...

One-year data suggest allogeneic stem cell-derived islet-cell therapy could become a future option for those with type 1 ...