For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon ...

Most of the insulin used by people today is made by bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce insulin that is identical to insulin made in the human pancreas, according to the National ...

Researchers from Duke University have found that, under certain conditions, cells in the pancreas can produce GLP-1 – the ...

E. coli is the field's main "workhorse" says Prof Wallace, who has also genetically engineered it in the lab to turn plastic ...

UCSF Health transplant specialists recently performed an innovative, minimally invasive pancreatic islet transplant designed to enable a patient with Type 1 diabetes to become insulin independent. ...

Type 2 diabetes medications, such as sulfonylureas, have been a mainstay of treating the disease since they came on the ...