Study links insulin resistance and advanced cell aging with childhood poverty
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Black adolescents who lived in poverty and were less optimistic about the future showed accelerated aging in their immune cells...
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Stem cell therapy protects against the side effects of cancer drugs
Fig.1 Diabetes incidence by cancer immunotherapy could be reduced by mesenchymal stem cell therapy. Credit: Diabetologia, CC0 Immune checkpoint inhibitors are widely used to...
Stem cell therapy protects against the side effects of cancer drugs — ScienceDaily
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are widely used to treat a variety of cancers; however, one serious side effect is the onset of type 1 diabetes....
Benefits of the blood pressure medication verapamil include delayed disease progression, lowered insulin requirements and preservation of some beta cell function. — ScienceDaily
Use of the drug verapamil to treat Type 1 diabetes continues to show benefits lasting at least two years, researchers report in the journal...
Discovery of a Stem-like T cell in type 1 diabetes holds potential for improving cancer immunotherapy — ScienceDaily
To an immunologist, autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes are the polar opposite of cancer. In the former, the immune system goes into overdrive...
Diabetes researcher details science behind potential stem cell breakthrough
“When my son was diagnosed [with Type 1], I knew nothing about diabetes. I changed my research focus, thinking, as any parent would, ‘What...
Molecule could prevent damaging cell changes caused by type 2 diabetes and obesity
Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2021.08.233 A large proportion of the damaging chemical changes which occur in the body’s cells due to diabetes and obesity...
Only one human fat cell subtype responds to insulin stimulation — ScienceDaily
It is well known that fat cells can influence our sensitivity to insulin. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that there...
Stem Cell Therapy May Offer Benefits for Type 2
A stem cell therapy using cells from a person’s own bone marrow may be a promising treatment for type 2 diabetes, according to a...
Research advances one step closer to stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes
Functional beta cells made from human pluripotent stem cells. Insulin (red) and NKX6.1 (green) indicate two proteins produced by beta cells. Credit: Salk Institute...