Scientists have known for more than 100 years about insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. These spherical islands of cells, called islets, contain insulin-producing beta cells.

The pancreas is the organ that produces insulin. Insulin is an essential hormone for regulating blood glucose levels. Problems with the pancreas and insulin production can lead to diabetes.

In the current study, they looked at whether non-beta cells were even necessary for insulin production. Diagram of the pancreas showing the different types of islet cells and the hormones they produce ...

Type 1 diabetes will always require insulin therapy. However, researchers are trying to figure out a way to restore the pancreas’s insulin production function.

This could happen if your pancreas slows down insulin production or your body doesn’t use insulin as well as it should. You may be able to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes by: ...

A new organ transport technology called the Pancreas Pack is helping more diabetes patients receive life-saving transplants.

Type 1 diabetes affects over 8 million people around the world. It’s a lifelong condition that occurs when the immune system ...

Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

They showed that the shift from a repressed to an active chromatin state—marked by changes in histone modifications H3K27me3 and H3K4me3—was essential to kickstart insulin production.

Each diabetes type affects insulin production in a different way. Type 1 diabetes causes damage to the beta cells in your pancreas that make insulin. As a result, your body can't produce enough of ...

Your brain makes insulin – the same insulin produced by your pancreas. The same insulin that is not produced in people with type 1 diabetes and the s Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...