In preclinical studies, a team of researchers report new findings on a therapeutic combination that regenerated human insulin-producing beta cells, providing a possible new treatment for diabetes. In ...

3-D image of a mouse kidney that has received human islet grafts. Beta cells are visible in green; red reveals the entire mouse kidney. For the study, the natural product harmine, which is found in ...

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the first use of insulin in humans. Part 1 of this series examined the rivalry behind the discovery and ...

Type 1 diabetes, also known as insulin-dependent diabetes, causes a slowdown or complete stop in the amount of insulin produced by the body, requiring regular injections of the hormone to regulate an ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a groundbreaking method to produce human insulin using Pseudomonas fluorescens, a safe and efficient bacterial system.

With the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in the early 1920’s, followed by the establishment of commercial production, diabetes was no longer a death sentence. Insulin was not a cure, ...