With the incidence of type 2 diabetes increasing alarmingly, science is looking to genetics to better understand the processes underlying this chronic illness. A new study has isolated a gene not ...
A proof-of-concept study finds that donated insulin-producing cells can be genetically modified to avoid provoking the recipient's immune system. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A new case study ...
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Gene-Edited Cells Restore Insulin in Diabetes Patient
People with Type 1 diabetes lose insulin-producing beta cells due to an autoimmune reaction, forcing lifelong dependence on ...
A man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient to produce his own insulin after receiving genetically engineered cell transplants, without needing drugs to prevent rejection. The case, ...
In a recent study published in the Biotechnology Journal, a team of researchers from Brazil constructed a lentivirus vector with expression specific for mammary glands and carrying the gene for human ...
Stress does no one - not even your insulin-producing cells - any good. Researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have identified a gene that, when activated by metabolic stress, damages ...
Vertex could be “leading the path to insulin independence," according to analysts, after another batch of data showed that the off-the-shelf diabetes cell therapy stimulated insulin production in all ...
A potential new therapy for diabetics has been discovered that could prove to be a major breakthrough in the management of type 2 diabetes. The latest research centers on a specific gene, SMOC1. In ...
His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B, diabetes and more. By Trip Gabriel William J. Rutter, a scientist who ...
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