Our body controls the levels of sugar in our blood with a hormone called insulin, which is made by beta cells in the pancreas ...

Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique By Paul McClure February 23, 2025 A new approach to insulin cell transplantation could provide a cure for type 1 diabetes Original by ...

A new stem cell treatment could eliminate the need for insulin therapy in people with type 1 diabetes, a disease where the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin, according to a study authored by University ...

There’s a cliché in the type 1 diabetes community that a cure has been “five years away” for as long as anyone can remember. For decades, patients have been told that researchers were on the verge of ...

Zimislecel is an allogeneic stem cell–derived islet-cell therapy. Data on the safety and efficacy of zimislecel in persons with type 1 diabetes are needed. We conducted a phase 1–2 study of zimislecel ...

One challenge of using cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes is that this approach requires chronic suppression of the immune system to prevent rejection of donor cells. A Vertex Pharmaceuticals ...

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have uncovered a possible way to protect key cells in the pancreas that are ...

Vertex is ending work on one of its two clinical-stage islet cell treatments after the diabetes therapy looked unlikely to trigger sufficient levels of insulin production in a phase 1/2 trial. The ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a critical hormone that regulates blood sugar in the body. Scientists at Scripps ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Twelve people with type 1 diabetes who received ...

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...