NIH awards $2.6 million to Wayne State to develop new filtration platform for insulin administration
DETROIT – A Wayne State University College of Engineering professor has received a $2.65 million award from the National Institute ...
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Drug manufacturers use FDA, patent strategies to keep insulin prices high
Over the last four decades, insulin manufacturers have extended their periods of market exclusivity on brand-name insulin products by employing ...
Obesity linked to neurodegeneration through insulin resistance
Researchers led by Mroj Alassaf at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States have discovered a link ...
Human insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought
A new Cochrane review has found that insulin can be kept at room temperature for months without losing potency, offering ...
High insulin levels directly linked to pancreatic cancer
A new study from researchers at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine reveals a direct link between high ...
Automated insulin delivery in women with pregnancy complicated by Type 1 diabetes
Automated Insulin Delivery in Women with Pregnancy Complicated by Type 1 Diabetes The New England Journal of Medicine: Hybrid Closed-Loop ...
New stem cell-derived islet therapy improves blood sugar control in all treated patients, with three achieving insulin independence
Six adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) treated with stem cell-derived islet cells (VX-880) have shown improved blood sugar control ...
Van Andel Institute scientist awarded $2.9 million to tackle insulin resistance, a driver of Type 2 diabetes
Van Andel Institute’s Nick Burton, Ph.D., has earned a five-year, nearly $2.9 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes ...
Tirzepatide vs insulin lispro added to basal insulin in type 2 diabetes
About The Study: In people with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes treated with basal insulin in this randomized clinical trial with ...
Comprehensive insulin signalling map shows interplay between genes and diet
Researchers have produced a comprehensive picture of insulin signalling in mice and suggest that it is shaped by entangled effects ...
After treatment with semaglutide, newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients needed little or no insulin
BUFFALO, N.Y.— Treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients with semaglutide (trade names Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus) may drastically reduce ...
Study looks at Achilles’ heel of insulin pump technology
Since the insulin pump started widespread use in the early 1980s, it’s become the option of choice for type 1 ...
Study: Inflation Reduction Act’s cap on insulin out-of-pocket costs boosts prescription fills
LOS ANGELES – The Inflation Reduction Act’s policy capping out-of-pocket costs for insulin to $35 for a month’s supply led ...
‘Traffic control’ system for mucin and insulin secretion identified
Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have published a study in the journal Nature Communications that ...
Once-weekly insulin Icodec vs once-daily insulin Degludec in adults with insulin-naive type 2 diabetes
About The Study: Among people with insulin-naive type 2 diabetes, once-weekly icodec demonstrated superior HbA1c reduction to once-daily degludec after 26 ...
Closed-loop insulin delivery systems may improve blood sugar control in children with type 1 diabetes
CHICAGO—Closed-loop insulin delivery systems improve glucose control in children with type 1 diabetes without causing adverse effects, according to a ...
A plant-based, oral delivery of insulin regulates blood sugar levels similar to natural insulin
Insulin production has, for the last 50 or so years, come with some risks to the patient. Even so, the ...
Tirzepatide has unique activity to stimulate insulin secretion
DURHAM, N.C. – Tirzepatide, a drug approved for diabetes and on the fast track for approval as a weight loss ...
Too much insulin can be as dangerous as too little
Just over a century has passed since the discovery of insulin, a time period during which the therapeutic powers of ...
Endocrine Society endorses bipartisan bill to address insulin affordability
WASHINGTON—The Endocrine Society today endorsed the Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act of 2023, a ...
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Researchers uncover NSMF protein’s role in relieving DNA replication stress
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Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells
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‘Bone biographies’ reveal lives of medieval England’s common people – and illuminate early benefits system
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Study tests firefighter turnout gear with, without PFAS
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Mass General-developed brain care score (BCS) is a scientifically validated way to assess current health habits and risk to future brain health
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal