Personalized therapies for diabetes, while showing promise in international studies, is met with healthy skepticism from ...

Obesity is responsible for the deaths of over three million people a year worldwide due to its associated diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. However, a subset of obese ...

With the right steps, it’s possible to put type 2 diabetes into remission and restore healthy blood glucose levels. But how do you get there?

Scientists in China have found a new potential drug target for weight loss. Blocking a protein called CD44 has been shown to protect against obesity in mice on a high-fat diet, specifically by ...

For the first time, scientists in China reprogrammed a woman's fat cells to turn them into insulin-making pancreatic cells that reversed her type 1 diabetes. The feat adds to a growing body of ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered that a molecule which can sense the swelling of fat cells also controls a signaling pathway that allows fat cells to take up and store excess ...

The islets of Langerhans play a crucial role in blood sugar regulation. Fayette A Reynolds/Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library via Flickr Diabetes develops when the body fails to ...

These factors prompted research into better and more permanent treatments for T1D. The most obvious solution: restore the natural repertoire of β cell islets. Although most recipients experienced ...

New research suggests that fat tissue may be more adaptable than previously thought, undergoing significant cellular and molecular changes as body weight declines.

Weight loss is often described as a reset. Your blood sugar can improve. Your risk of diabetes and heart disease can fall. Yet a stubborn question has lingered for years: does your fat tissue truly ...

Roughly half of Americans have prediabetes or diabetes, including an increasing number of children. High blood levels of glucose (sugar) whether, from prediabetes or diabetes, damage blood vessels and ...