stem cells

Doug Melton, one of the 100 man of the year of Times magazine is a researcher working on generating beta like cells that can replace the innate beta cells. (https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11463) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4617632/ What do you think of this research...

JDRF just announced a new partnership with Stanford and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to create the JDRF Northern California Center of Excellence. The goal of the Center is to research and develop cures for type 1 diabetes that use stem cells to generate insulin-producing...

Scientists have discovered the signals that determine the fate of immature cells in the pancreas. The research shows that they are very mobile and that their destiny is strongly influenced by their immediate environment. This breakthrough published in the journal Nature will facilitate the...

Scientists from the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have confirmed the existence of progenitor cells within the human pancreas that can be stimulated to develop into glucose-responsive beta cells. These significant findings, published in Cell...

415 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with diabetes. And the number continues to rise. Common to all diabetes patients is that they lack the ability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin, which regulates the blood sugar in the body. This can lead to a number of complications and in...

Norwegian researches are one step closer to cure diabetes by making insulin-producing cells from skin cells. Researchers at the University of Bergen have transformed skin puncture cells from diabetes patients into insulin producing cells, using stem cell techniques. The researchers' aim is to...

Last week, two people with type 1 diabetes became the first to receive implants containing cells generated from embryonic stem cells to treat their condition. The hope is that when blood sugar levels rise, the implants will release insulin to restore them to normal. About 10 per cent of the 422...

Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have produced insulin-secreting cells from stem cells derived from patients with type 1 diabetes. People with this form of diabetes can't make...

DEVELOPMENT of the first stem-cell treatment for Type 1 diabetes has been sped up after animal trials indicate the technique could cure the life-threatening hormonal disorder. Johnson & Johnson with biotech company ViaCyte have already begun testing it in a small number of diabetic patients...