Scientists Think They've Found a New Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
Dec 20, 2023 · More than half a billion people worldwide are affected by type 2 diabetes, and yet researchers still don't know what's behind the condition's breakdown in insulin functionality.
Flagship AI-ready dataset released in type 2 diabetes study
4 days ago · Date: November 8, 2024. Source: University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine. Summary: Researchers today are releasing the flagship dataset from an ambitious study of biomarkers and ...
New Research Sheds Light on Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
Sep 13, 2023 · The new study shows that the beta-cells of Type 2 diabetes patients are deficient in a cell trafficking protein called “phosphatidylinositol transfer protein alpha” (or PITPNA), which can promote the formation of “little packages,” or intracellular granules containing insulin.
Beyond Blood Sugar Control: New Target for Curing Diabetes …
Mar 22, 2024 · A groundbreaking study involving mice with obesity caused by diet shows that eliminating inceptor improves glucose management. This finding encourages further investigation into inceptor as a potential therapeutic target for treating type 2 diabetes.
NIH Launches Large Study to Tackle Type 2 Diabetes in Youth
5 days ago · In youth with type 2 diabetes, good blood glucose control is harder to achieve, and the ability of the pancreas to secrete insulin declines much more rapidly. Many young people with this disease also don’t respond well to metformin, the most common first-line treatment for diabetes in adults. In addition, youth-onset type 2 diabetes is ...
New therapeutic targets to fight type 2 diabetes | ScienceDaily
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an increasingly common chronic disease that results in high levels of circulating glucose -- the cellular energy fuel -- due to a deficient insulin response in the...
Diabetes breakthrough: Scientists uncover novel route to stimulate …
Nov 8, 2023 · The findings hold promise for future therapeutics that will improve the lives of individuals with type 2 diabetes—a condition that affects more than half a billion people worldwide.
Large-scale study reveals new genetic details of diabetes
Oct 19, 2023 · In experiments of unprecedented scale, investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the National Institutes of Health have revealed new aspects of the complex genetics behind Type 2 diabetes.
New Study Reveals Promising Findings to Treat Type 2 Diabetes
Nov 8, 2023 · A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has demonstrated that activating a pathway to promote cell division not only expanded the population of insulin-producing cells, but, surprisingly, also enhanced the cells’ function.
Type 2 diabetes - Latest research and news | Nature
Oct 14, 2024 · Type 2 diabetes mellitus, the most frequent subtype of diabetes, is a disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose (hyperglycaemia). It arises from a resistance to and relative...