Insulin protein structure is different among different species of animals. However, essentially it is a protein chain that is similar in many ways among animals.

Insulin is one of the most commonly used therapeutic agents used in diabetes. While the structure of this complex protein has been studied in detail there were parts of the receptor for insulin ...

A recent study identified a non-insulin-related protein that can activate the human insulin receptor, which could lead to the development of an insulin-mimicking oral pill and replace the need for ...

Obesity caused by a high-fat Western diet damages the pancreas, affecting insulin production and blood sugar control even ...

Neuroscientists have demonstrated for the first time in living animals that insulin receptors in the brain can initiate signaling that regulates both the structure and function of neural circuits.

University of Utah researchers have found that the structure of an insulin molecule produced by predatory cone snails may be an improvement over current fast-acting therapeutic insulin. The ...

Bioengineers and scientists at Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk have synthesised an insulin molecule with an “on-and-off switch” that automatically responds to sugar levels in the blood.

The Insulin Molecule Last year, after a full decade of intensive work at Cambridge University, Frederick Sanger and his colleagues for the first time totally described the chemical structure of a ...

As a small molecule, Structure’s lead drug candidate is less expensive to make and easier for patients to take as a once-daily pill. A Phase 1 test of GSBR-1290 in healthy volunteers was ...

Insulin is then stored in groups of six, maintaining their structure while remaining inactive until called upon and released from the granules; the groups of six separating and the now fully active ...

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team. DNA is widely accepted to be formed of two strands that wind around one ...

Since its landmark discovery in 1922, insulin has improved the health and extended the lives of more than 500 million people worldwide with diabetes mellitus. Yet the question of how this key hormone ...