New Test Helps Identify People at Risk for Five Deadly Diseases
A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School (HMS) reports a new kind of…
Diabetes
Researchers Reveal Diabetes Results From Breakdown of Epigenetic Control
Diabetes affects more than 400 million individuals worldwide. In what is becoming a paradigm shift, researchers have begun to find that the disease may result…
New Method Uses Vitamin D to Treat Diabetes and Protect β Cells
More than 27 million people in the United States are living with type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As…
Zero-Calorie Sweeteners Linked to Dramatic Increase in Diabetes and Obesity
Increased awareness of the health consequences of eating too much sugar has fueled a dramatic uptick in the consumption of zero-calorie artificial sweeteners in recent…
Biochemists Discover A New Target For Patients With Diabetes
Focusing on a simple hormone in us all, a Yale researcher has found specific forms of it that poke toxic holes in cells — a…
New Study Shows Absence of ANGPTL4 Protein Reduces Cholesterol and Inflammation
Diet-induced diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are leading causes of death worldwide. In their search for novel therapies for these related chronic illnesses, Yale researchers…
Why Some People Fail to Respond to Potentially Dangerous Drops in Their Blood Sugar
The brains of people with type 1 diabetes react differently to low blood sugar compared with healthy adults, say Yale researchers. The findings of their…
New Biosensor Can Monitor Glucose Levels From Contact Lenses
Constantly tracking a person’s glucose levels through their tears or sweat could be one step closer to providing people with diabetes an improved monitoring tool….
New Discovery Helps Identify Children at Risk for Type 1 Diabetes
Six novel chromosomal regions identified by scientists leading a large, prospective study of children at risk for type 1 diabetes will enable the discovery of…
High Glucose Levels During Pregnancy Affects the Baby’s Heart
New research from UCLA details how diabetes in pregnancy affects baby’s heart, revealing that high levels of glucose keep cardiac cells from maturing normally. Researchers…
Inhibition of FKBP51 Protein Reduces Obesity and Diabetes
For the first time, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich could prove that a stress protein found in muscle has a…
Researchers Reverse Diabetes in a Mouse Model Using Modified Stem Cells
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have successfully reversed type 1 diabetes in a mouse model by infusing blood stem cells pre-treated to produce more of…
Yale Study Finds Lower Brain Glucose Levels in People with Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes
A new study from Yale University shows that glucose levels are reduced in the brains of individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes compared to…
Yale Study Identifies Apelin as a Therapeutic Target for Diabetes
New research from Yale University details how apelin could be a potential target for future therapies for type 2 diabetes. Blood vessels have an often-overlooked…
Scientists Reveal the Role of Gut Bacteria in Averting Type 1 Diabetes
A new Harvard study found that a guardian gene, which protects against Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases, exerts its pancreas-shielding effects by altering…
New Research Provides Hope for Better Wound Healing for Diabetics
New research from the Max Planck Institute could lead to the development of new wound treatment methods for people with diabetes. Diabetics often have to…
Study Reveals a Promising New Target to Treat Type 2 Diabetes
Scientists at Yale University reveal promising new target for drugs to treat type 2 diabetes. When the body’s cells don’t respond normally to insulin —…
New Study Shows Fructose Alters Brain Genes, Which Can Lead to Disease
A new study by researchers at UCLA reveals that genes in the brain can be damaged by fructose, leading to diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease,…