SCIENTISTS have suggested that stem cell therapy may offer a regenerative cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D). They said stem cell ...

Damaging these insulin-producing cells, known as beta cells, can potentially worsen symptoms of diabetes, particularly type 1 diabetes, wherein the pancreas already makes little to no insulin ...

The human body can be genetically inclined to attack its own cells, destroying the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin, which helps convert sugar into energy. Called Type 1 diabetes, this ...

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Credit: Laboratoire Pedro Herrera – UNIGE Our glycemic balance is based on the ability of the pancreatic beta cells to detect glucose and secrete insulin to maintain our blood sugar levels.

Pancreatic islets from adult human subject stained for Insulin (INS) marking beta cells, for p16, and for HLA-I – the system by which cells display antigens to attract immune attack.

Researchers have used a pair of drugs to stimulate pancreatic stem cells to grow into insulin-producing cells. The study’s findings could one day lead to an alternative way of restoring insulin ...

Scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have discovered insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets suffer less from excess sugar when they have previously been ...

Jing Hughes, an endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis, was working late in the lab recently, imaging cilia in mouse pancreatic beta cells. These cilia, which are tiny hairlike ...

The pancreas is a key metabolic regulator. When pancreatic beta cells cease producing enough insulin, blood sugar levels rise dangerously -- a phenomenon known as hyperglycemia -- thus triggering ...

The endoscope is fitted with a tool that allows the operator to take tissue samples. After converting gastric stem cells to beta-like cells called gastric insulin-secreting cells (GINS).