Researchers have taken a big step forward in the quest to regenerate the pancreatic beta-cells damaged by type 1 diabetes. Using FDA-approved drugs usually given to patients with rare cancers, they ...

This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights. In high school, one of Julie Sneddon ...

On one wall of endocrinologist Kevan Herold’s office hangs artwork by a girl who joined one of his type 1 diabetes trials when she was 11 years old. The girl was diagnosed with stage 2 of the disease, ...

Scientific breakthroughs in one disease don't always shed light on treating other diseases. But that's been the surprising journey of one Mayo Clinic research team. After identifying a sugar molecule ...

Researchers demonstrated that pancreatic β cells from type 2 diabetes donors can partially regain glucose responsiveness when ...

Diabetes affects 37 million people in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates another 96 million people – or 1 in 3 adults – have prediabetes, a condition where blood sugar ...

In people with T2D, beta cells are reprogrammed into dysfunctional alpha-like ... which is the root cause of the high blood sugar levels that define diabetes. The researchers' final round of ...