Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and is estimated to affect 9.5 million people worldwide. Low insulin levels ...

When Amanda Smith walked into the kitchen one night in 2015 to warm up a bottle for her four-month-old daughter, she couldn’t make out the numbers on the microwave. They were blurry. They’d never been ...

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of diabetes was almost a death sentence. Physicians could do little more than prescribe starvation diets to prolong life by a few months. The true cause of ...

Understanding how the cells that control blood sugar work is crucial to preventing and treating diabetes. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now developed a technique that makes it possible to ...

Transplanting human gastric organoids engineered to release insulin in diabetic mice reduced hyperglycemia, offering a therapeutic avenue for type 1 diabetes. Researchers had previously reprogrammed ...

In Tamil Nadu, a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Lord Shiva as Karumbeswarar, the 'Lord of Sugarcane,' is gaining popularity as the 'Diabetes Temple.' Devotees believe visiting the temple and ...