Most of the insulin used by people today is made by bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce insulin that is identical to insulin made in the human pancreas, according to the National ...

Schematic of the lentiviral vector constructed for mammary gland-specific human insulin expression and restriction map analysis. (A) Schematic of the lentiviral vector constructed. (B) The restriction ...

Diabetes is characterized by insufficient production of insulin due to the loss or dysfunction of pancreatic beta cells. A new study published in Cell Metabolism shows that a protein called beta cell ...

Once in the liver, these substances can be changed or broken down before they spread throughout the body. By comparing blood ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...

A study conducted at Harvard University identified a group of metabolites that travel from the intestine to the liver and ...

Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a type of gut bacteria that might help improve insulin resistance, and thus protect ...

Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a type of gut bacteria that might help improve insulin resistance, and thus protect ...

Millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world don’t have reliable access to insulin. Due to their bodies’ inability to produce the hormone, they have to inject it to ensure that ...

Researchers have been looking for new methods by which people with diabetes can regulate their insulin levels. Recently a team in Switzerland found a way to deliver insulin by playing Queen’s “We Will ...