Search Results for: islet
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Cure Insight
Finding a Path Toward Insulin Independence
Type 1 diabetes research has had a lot of dead ends over the years, but Dr. Levetan hopes each research…
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A Pancreatic Resurrection?
Could regenerative therapy, combined with immunotherapy, be the next leap forward?
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Medicine/Drugs
T1 Diabetes is Complicated…Even for Doctors
Can you name all the hormones needed for good blood glucose control? If not, you’re not alone.
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Cure Insight
Is it Time to Rename Type 1 Diabetes?
Could a T1 rebranding bring scientists closer to a cure?
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Cure Insight
Research Corner: Helping the Pancreas Help Itself
Dr. Claresa Levetan explains how activating a regenerative gene may be the key for T1s to start producing insulin again.
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Cure Insight
Ending the A1C Blame Game
When a diabetes researcher wears a glucose sensor, she is reminded that diabetes is mainly physiological.
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Cure Insight
The Mouse Trap
We’ve gotten good at curing diabetes in mice. Where’s the cure for humans?
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Cure Insight
Reverse Vaccine for Diabetes Shows Promise
Can scientists use a new molecule to shut off the immune system’s attack on islet cells? Results of a new…
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Medicine/Drugs
Uncovering a Pancreatic Bodyguard
Researchers have discovered a rare immune system cell that might shield the pancreas from attack in models of mice with…
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Medicine/Drugs
Back to the Future for Cancer Drug That May Help Type 1s
An old drug used to treat cancerous tumors may help suppress the immune system destruction that causes Type 1 diabetes.
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Cure Insight
The Cure is in Us
Dr. Claresa Levetan has promised 11-year-old Type 1 Louis Cocco, Jr. that she will get him off insulin before he…
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Medicine/Drugs
The Connection Between Glowing Bunnies and Diabetes Research
Researchers have spliced a jellyfish gene into rabbit DNA to make glow-in-the-dark bunnies. It’s an advance that has implications for…
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Hypoglycemia
Harnessing Hypos: Glucagon As An Everyday Tool
Controlling blood glucose like a normal pancreas does, using insulin and glucagon in tandem, is the aim of a San…
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Medicine/Drugs
Beta Cell Growth Factor or Just HOT Air?
Tests of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on pre-diabetic mice show promise in generating beta cell growth and preventing or slowing the…
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Hypoglycemia
Faster Insulin: Extracellular Action
Want your bolus insulin to arrive faster and leave sooner? Halozyme Therapeutics has good news for you.
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Cure Insight
Putting Killer Cells in Reverse: The Hidden Power of CXCL12
Poznansky has developed a process to keep “killer” cells away from transplanted tissue, specifically islets, by deceiving them into not…
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Cure Insight
A Type 1 Triple Play
What if we could forecast which people would suffer from Type 1 diabetes years before it happened?
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Cure Insight
Stemming the Tide of Immune Response
Delivering mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) during islet transplantation more than doubled islet function, enhanced islet survival and reversed rejection episodes.…
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Small Wonders On A Cellular Battlefield
“We’re exploring using materials that release, slowly, low amounts of drugs at the implant site for many years. Instead of…
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Cure Insight
A Cure Out Of Thin Air?
The Diabetes Research Institute's "oxygen sandwich" may help Chris Fraker and his coworkers make islet cell transplantation -- and a…
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