The Canadian doctor who won the Nobel prize for his role in discovering insulin was an accomplished artist as well as a remarkable scientist. Frederick Banting’s 1925 painting of the lab where he did ...

Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a new way to regulate blood glucose levels using a lab-designed protein, possibly opening the door to a new treatment avenue ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Renal denervation improved the liver's sensitivity to insulin in a study of laboratory animals conducted at the ...

In diabetes, the body doesn't make enough or doesn't respond to a hormone called insulin, which is produced by beta cells in the pancreas. In type 1 diabetes, those beta cells are lost, and people ...

Indianapolis, a hotbed of insulin research, development and manufacturing, is about to get another player. Thermalin Inc., a Cleveland-based biotech startup that just won $17.5 million in venture ...

Canadian researchers become first to identify potential stem cell of insulin-producing pancreas islets and develop process for producing cells in lab for eventual transplants. Freedom from insulin ...

For decades, doctors have known that patients who develop higher than normal blood sugar eventually require medication and ultimately need to take insulin, having progressed to what is known as Type 2 ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A new, effective alternative to pancreas tranplantation may be on the horizon to treat type 1 diabetes, a study says. In a lab experiment, researchers grew healthy beta cells to ...

Dieter Egli, assistant professor in the pediatrics department at Columbia University Medical Center, told The Globe that his laboratory will try to repeat Melton’s experiment immediately. “It’s a ...

The pancreas secretes insulin, a naturally occurring hormone, that is essential for the human body. Individuals with diabetes are prescribed insulin due to non-production or improper use of insulin by ...