What if someone said that you — someone with type 1 diabetes — could take a pill and your insulin requirements would not only drop, but they might be eliminated completely? Would you think they were crazy, or maybe confusing you with a type 2?
Well, it may not be a matter of sanity or misunderstanding. We might not be talking about a “magic pill” to make your diabetes disappear, but the early stages of…
Sorry, Mr. Pancreas, but your role in reversing type 1 diabetes could become irrelevant if the Diabetes Research Institute has anything to say about it.
Top diabetes researchers at the DRI plan to create a new mini-organ that would make the current efforts to transplant islet cells from a donated pancreas and into a person’s liver a focus of the past.
Instead, the DRI is developing a small man-made receptacle that it’s calling the BioHub,…
Ah, the pancreas. That organ behind the stomach that’s always been the target of angst and anger for us PWDs (people with diabetes). We bemoan why it went on permanent vacation and daydream about kick-starting it…
But all of our complaining might be for naught. Turns out there might be an even bigger, badder enemy of healthy blood sugars: the thymus!
… the who??
Let me tell you a little about this other gland:
The…
Diabetes research news (and anything involving lab mice) can sometimes make our eyes gloss over, as it seems we’re hearing about some new scientific “breakthrough” every other day.
But we took a little more interest recently when hearing about a new line of D-research that seems to have a Star Trek spin to it!
Yup, apparently this research is exploring how our insulin-producing cells basically put on a Romulan cloaking device to hide from diabetes!…
For as long as there has been research to cure diabetes, there have been people who believe that a cure will never happen because treating this disease is simply far too profitable. Those who believe in this so-called “conspiracy theory” are convinced that pharma companies have a vested interest in keeping diabetes around as long as possible because peddling their treatments is far bigger business than a cure could ever be.
We all know that…