Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alpha cells in the pancreas produce GLP-1, reshaping our understanding of blood sugar control and diabetes care. (CREDIT: ...

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Mor than 800 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, with numbers steadily increasing. Diabetic patients experience abnormally high ...

A new study from Duke University School of Medicine is challenging long-standing views on blood sugar regulation—and pointing to a surprising new ally in the fight against type 2 diabetes. Subscribe ...

Century Therapeutics, Inc. (IPSC) is a very interesting cell therapy biotech, especially with the accomplishments it has been able to make thus far. That's because it released positive interim data as ...

Sana Biotechnology, Inc. stock will be surging today after the company showed it can safely administer its allogeneic cell therapy for diabetes to a patient with no immunosuppression. Engineered cells ...

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For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says. Scientists at Duke ...