Much attention has been paid to Vertex’s efforts to develop a stem cell therapy for Type 1 diabetes. But flying under the radar with an allogenic (donor) gene therapy for the disorder has been Chicago ...

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An innovative stem cell-based treatment for Type 1 diabetes can meaningfully regulate blood glucose levels and reduce dependence on daily insulin injections, according to new clinical trial results.

Now UAB researchers, led by Guanlan Xu, Ph.D., and Shalev drilled down further into the mechanism underlying verapamil’s beneficial effect. In a paper published in Diabetes, they show that, in Type 1 ...

Tolerance is the holy grail in calming autoimmune disease, a truce in the immune system’s faulty battle against the body’s own fabric. In type 1 diabetes, immune fighters attack beta cells in the ...

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KYOTO—Kyoto University Hospital officials announced on April 14 that a research team conducted a clinical trial in February to transplant lab-grown pancreatic islets into a woman in her 40s who has ...

MANILA, Philippines — Being diagnosed with a life-long condition like Type 1 Diabetes can cause fear for the kid and his family, but a pediatrician assured that the disease is manageable with the ...