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100 years of insulin: How immunotherapy could be future of diabetes treatment This year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. Before this discovery, diabetes was a fatal condition with a short lifespan for those with the condition. But in 1921, three scientists from the University of Toronto, Sir Frederick G Banting, Charles […]
A cure for Type-1 diabetes has come closer with the development of a new method for keeping transplanted insulin-producing cells alive and functional in recipients for long periods even when transplanted underneath the skin. A team led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine reports the new method, and its successful testing in multiple […]
The ISLET project, a multi-center collaboration of leading European researchers, aims to develop a manufacturing pipeline for stem cell-based products to treat patients with Type 1 Diabetes. In Type 1 Diabetes a patient’s immune system destroys the beta cells within the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas making a patient depend-ent on life-long delivery of […]
We wish everyone a happy World Diabetes Day. We wish we didn’t have to celebrate this, but since we are, let’s all have some cake, bolus a little and make the best of it! Here’s hoping to more accessible treatments, a cure, and most of all, GOOD HEALTH!
More people with type 1 diabetes should be considered for pump treatment in line with NICE guidance, the latest National Diabetes Insulin Pump Audit report has recommended. The 2017-18 report covering England and Wales has called for improved access to the technology to reduce variation in provision and also because of associations with treatment target […]
Bioengineers at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a new type of insulin that could help prevent hypoglycemia in people who use the drug to manage diabetes. The treatment is being evaluated for potential clinical trials and, if successful, could change diabetes care for millions of people. Insulin is a hormone naturally produced […]
Klearchos Papas, a University of Arizona professor in the department of surgery, is leading a team to develop a new way to treat Type 1 diabetes. The treatment would release insulin into a person when an oxygen-enhanced implantable device senses their glucose level is too low. The device would also remove the need for immunosuppression, […]
Capsule that releases insulin in the stomach could replace injections for patients with type 1 diabetes. Anne Trafton | MIT News Office February 7, 2019 An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of insulin, potentially replacing the injections that people with type 1 diabetes have […]