One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

In most solid tumors, high numbers of regulatory T (Treg) cells are associated with poorer outcomes because they dampen the ...

Stem cell therapy is an emerging treatment for type 2 diabetes. Although it’s not yet FDA-approved in the United States, it is a rapidly expanding and promising field of research. Stem cells are ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Share on Pinterest Are researchers getting closer to functionally curing type 1 diabetes? Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her own ...

Nearly two million Americans are affected by type 1 diabetes. Diabetes occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin to breakdown sugar or glucose. As a result, patients have high blood pressure ...

Multipotent dental stem cells can give rise to various cell types and show potential for treating injuries, diabetes, and ...

Mitochondria are essential for generating energy that fuels cells and helps them function. Mitochondrial defects, however, are associated with the development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes.

Sana Biotechnology has shared early data for its investigational allogeneic cell therapy being studied in one patient with type 1 diabetes, sending the company’s share price up by about 200%. The data ...