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...
Science could be well on its way to a cure for type 1 diabetes, as researchers hone transplant therapies designed to restore patients' ability to produce their own insulin, experts say.
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...
During eighteen months of ethnographic research focused on the diabetes patients who attended a weight services clinic located in a large hospital system in the Midwestern United States,we saw a range of weight-loss services narrow to a near-total emphasis on bariatric surgery (see Bell et al. ...
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 ...
In this scenario, looking at the overall pancreas rather than focusing on a single cell type may be a successful choice to finding the right path to regenerate β-cells, and a cure for type 2 diabetes. Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing ...
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 ...