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 ...

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. A potential new ...

A pioneering technology has been developed that enables human kidney organoids to be produced in a scalable manner by allowing the organoids to be combined with ex vivo pig kidneys and then ...

The Microbial Insulin Production presentation provides an in-depth examination of recombinant insulin production and the challenges associated with meeting the rising demand for this critical ...

Federal Government has said it will begin production of insulin in Nigeria as part of efforts to reduce dependence on imported drugs and improve access to affordable diabetes treatment. Minister of ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

The MODD1 insulin pump. [Image from Modular Medical] Modular Medical (Nasdaq:MODD) announced today that it validated its insulin pump cartridge line for human-use production in the U.S. San ...

March 4 (Reuters) - South Africa's competition watchdog is investigating drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Sanofi over possible anti-competitive practices in the human insulin pen market, the authority said ...

Fruit flies use brain cells to release insulin in response to sugar, much like humans, and this response declines with age, offering insights into metabolic diseases. JMU scientists studied ...