Diabetes research information and news.
A Canadian study has concluded a novel dual-hormone artificial pancreas system improves glucose control in patients with type 1 diabetes. Researchers from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine compared the dual-hormone system with a rapid insulin-alone artificial pancreas. According to the findings the D-HAP increased the blood glucose time in range from 74% to 84%. The…
Diabetes Cured in Mice Using New Human Stem Cell Therapy Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine have cured mice of diabetes using a new human stem cell therapy. The technique converts human stem cells into insulin-producing cells. When the insulin secreting cells were infused into mice with severe diabetes, within two weeks their blood glucose…
Today Beta Bionics was granted FDA breakthrough device designation for the iLet bionic pancreas system. The designation was granted in all configurations of the iLet (insulin-only, glucagon-only and bihormonal). The meaning of FDA breakthrough device designation is to provide patients and health care providers with timely access to medical devices by speeding up their development, assessment, and review….
Israeli firm Betalin Therapeutics has an implantable micro-pancreas that can produce insulin in patients with diabetes. Engineered Micro Pancreas The biological scaffolding combined with insulin producing cells is an engineered micro-pancreas. Therefore, implanted into a person during a minimally invasive procedure. Betalin‘s head researcher Avi Treves says the implanted device has the ability to produce insulin in…
A new research generates insulin producing cells in a study from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Neuherberg, Germany. Read the full article here! Watch Prof. Henrik Semb explain the research in this video! Read about new human stem cell research which cured mice of diabetes!
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham revealed ‘Verapamil’, (common blood pressure medication) helps adults with Type 1 diabetes. The UAB researchers said Verapamil can help promote more insulin production in adults with recent onset Type 1 diabetes. The treatment limits the need for insulin injections. This blood pressure medication breakthrough can be a…
Dawn Belt Davis, MD, PhD talks about hopeful T1D breakthroughs coming in 2018. She’s the associate professor in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Davis speaks about exciting research in islet transplantation, 670g artificial pancreas system, insulin pumps and more. Lets hope that 2018 brings major advances in…
Professor of medicine at Columbia University Domenico Accili says he can coax endocrine cells in the gut into insulin-producing cells to reverse diabetes. If the cells in the gut reverse diabetes, it would be a game-changer for the chronic disease. Accili found in the gut, proteins called FOXO which plays a dramatic role in the cells that…
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering are conducting a study using vascularized islets. The islets are derived from human stem cells in the lab to treat type 1 diabetes. Once the blood vessels grow into the islets and are rich in oxygen, they will be transplanted into the body. Therefore, will…