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Researchers regulate blood sugar levels independent of insulin

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Scientists Reprogram Skin Cells into Insulin-Producing Pancreas Cells

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Anti-cancer lysine deacetylase inhibitors protect against diabetes

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Ultrasound, Nanoparticles May Help Diabetics Avoid the Needle

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Type 2 diabetes linked to single gene mutation in 1 in 10 patients

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A multinational study has identified a key gene mutation responsible for type 2 diabetes in nearly 10 percent of patients of white European ancestry.
The study, which originated in Italy and was validated at UCSF, found that defects in the HMGA1 g…

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Missing sugar molecule raises diabetes risk in humans

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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego say an evolutionary gene mutation that occurred in human millions of years ago and our subsequent inability to produce a specific kind o…

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Home urine test measures insulin production in diabetes

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A simple home urine test has been developed which can measure if patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are producing their own insulin. The urine test, from Professor Andrew Hattersley’s Exeter-based team at the Peninsula Medical School, replaces…

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La Jolla Institute-led team illuminates cell pathway key to insulin resistance in Type 2 diabetes

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SAN DIEGO — (February 24, 2011) — A research team, led by La Jolla Institute scientist Joel Linden, Ph.D., has shed new light on the problem of insulin resistance, and identified the key participants in a molecular pathway that holds therapeu…

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New clues uncover how ‘starvation hormone’ works, investigators at UT Southwestern report

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DALLAS — Dec. 26, 2010 — New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers may solve a 17-year-old mystery about how the so-called “starvation hormone” affects multiple biological systems, including preventing insulin sensitivity and pr…

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BUSM researchers uncover cellular mechanism responsible for chronic inflammation, Type 2 diabetes

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(Boston) — Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that certain T cells require input from monocytes in order to maintain their pro-inflammatory response in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The study also s…

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Understanding diabetes at the molecular level

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United States and Japanese researchers have identified a key step in metabolic pathways linked to diabetes and cancer. The study on activation of the protein complex TORC 2 was published online in the journal Current Biology Oct. 28.
TORC 2 activa…

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Insulin-creating cell research may lead to better diabetes treatment

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LIVERMORE, Calif. — Beta cells, which make insulin in the human body, do not replicate after the age of 30, indicating that clinicians may be closer to better treating diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by a loss of beta cells by auto-immunity …

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