The link between diabetes and dementia is becoming increasingly clear. New research shows how blood sugar problems affect ...

In people with type 2 diabetes, the pancreas still makes insulin, unlike in type 1 diabetes. But the insulin made isn’t ...

Overview of peripheral and central insulin actions (black arrows). The vast majority of insulin hormones are synthesized by the pancreas. Insulin crosses the blood‒brain barrier (BBB) to act within ...

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

While our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is far from complete, the latest therapies, and others in more than 100 ...

Alzheimer’s disease has proved to be a tricky target, and researchers and drug developers have been pursuing effective treatments for decades. The brains of people who die with Alzheimer’s show a ...

AD is the most common cause of dementia in the western hemisphere, and equally alarming is the fact that AD is now emerging as a public health problem in developing countries as well. Although aging ...

Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced ...

For more than a hundred years, insulin has been the key to controlling type 1 diabetes. It has saved lives by preventing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening condition that happens when the ...

The team found that the microglia in their organoids were a key source of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1 ... to further clarify this previously unknown role of immune cells in the brain, she said.