Michael W. Schwartz explains the role played by the brain as a cause of elevated blood sugar and related metabolic ...

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks the beta cells that produce insulin in your pancreas. The attack causes permanent damage and leaves your pancreas unable to produce insulin.

A preclinical model developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that recapitulates a rare infant-onset form of diabetes ...

Mouse study reveals beneficial bacteria play crucial role in helping insulin-producing cells multiply. Exposure to ...

From your first breath, trillions of tiny microbes colonize your body, shaping your health in surprising ways. Among these ...

Q: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, ...

Other research has also shown that healthy foods like whole grains and blueberries, along with vitamins like vitamin D, may ...

She explained that human babies are born with a small amount of pancreatic “beta cells,” the only cells in the body that produce insulin. But some time in a baby’s first year, a once-in-a-lifetime ...

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