Because of their potential for direct cellular damage and causing extensive inflammation, viruses are one of the major candidates for triggering autoimmunity. Although there is epidemiological evidence, direct proof for viruses as causative agents for autoimmune disease is hard to get since most viruses...
Welcome to "Let's Cure Diabetes". We are a family dedicated to doing all we can to help find a cure for Type One Diabetes (T1D). To this end - we support and participate in many JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) events. Our main focus is the Ride to Cure Diabetes. ...
In type 1 diabetes we have two problems. There is an absence of insulin-producing beta cells and also an autoimmune attack, which is what killed the cells in the first place. Our lab and others have worked on problem one and I am confident that we are going to get buckets of beta cel...
Melton developed a scalable technique for creating human insulin-producing beta cells in vitro, a major stride towards an effective treatment for type 1 diabetes. According to a report published in the journal Cell on Oct. 9, this development is the first to yield beta cells that closely ...
Although the exact cause of type 1 diabetes isn’t known, it’s thought to be caused by an autoimmune response where the body attacks and destroys the pancreas’ beta cells, the cells that produceinsulin. For years, researchers have looked at‘curing’ diabetesby using stem cells to createin...
He died of complications from Type 2 diabetes in 2018. He was killed by the mould in that cheese. The particular mould in the cheese may not be the precise causative agent for type 2. But all mould helps the moulds in the gut beat the bacteria and other microbes with which they ...
Smoking cigarettes, obesity, poor control of blood glucose levels, and having diabetes mellitus for a long time further increase the risk of erectile dysfunction in people with diabetes. Hypertension (high blood pressure): Men with high blood pressure have an increased risk of developing erectile dy...
One was led by Daniel L. Kaufaman, a molecular biologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, and the other by Hugh O. Mcdevit of Stanford University. "There’s great excitement at the prospects for this research" said James Gavin, a diabetes specialist and president of the ...
A short post on an amazing study showing some incredible results recently published in The Lancet - one of the leading medical journals. Why worry about Diabetes?Diabetes: Diabetes is a disease that happens due to high sugar levels in your blood. In Type 2 diabetes, your body cannot absorb ...
Can a Cure for Diabetes Be Found Through Surgery? Narrator:Diabetes is one of the fastest-growing health crises of our time, in Britain, the National Health Service spends 10 billion pounds per year treating it, that’s al...