Given the critical role that pancreatic islet cells play in type 2 diabetes, scientists are working to better define normal islet biology in contrast to the abnormalities associated with diabetes.

MIT engineers have devised a way to incorporate crystallized immunosuppressant drugs into devices carrying encapsulated islet cells ... a long-term treatment for diabetes. Images for download ...

The following is a summary of “Caffeine intake associated with a lower risk of liver fibrosis in different glucose status,” ...

Patients with type 1 diabetes comorbid with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease had a low prevalence of advanced liver fibrosis.

Sana Biotechnology Inc. CEO Steve Harr said “cool and transformative science” led to his firm’s latest strides in type 1 diabetes, and the “very generalizable [clinical] result” cheered Wall Street, ...

There are large differences in the prevalence of the major forms of diabetes ... (e.g., cystic fibrosis). While most type 1 diabetes is characterized by the presence of islet cell, GAD, IA-2 ...

The first trials are taking place with “naked” cells in people with type 1 diabetes ... for islet cells in its proprietary Cell Pouch device. With Vertex’ exon-skipping cystic fibrosis ...