Researchers Receive More than $6 Million to Study Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Disease Over the past two decades, the number of new diabetes cases has almost tripled in the United States, and 80% of patients with Type 2 diabetes die from cardiovascular disease. Read more...
In Lab, SLU Researchers Find Benefits for Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease When Combining Two Anti-Diabetes Drugs A Saint Louis University research team, led by Kyle S. McCommis, Ph.D., assistant professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, found that combining two classes of anti-diabetes drugs provides superior benefits in mouse models of
Major NIH Study Seeks to Understand Unusual Forms of Diabetes Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is part of a national research network aiming to discover rare forms of diabetes as a first step toward providing more effective treatments. Read more...
First Immune-Evading Cells Created to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Salk Institute scientists have made a major advance in the pursuit of a safe and effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, an illness that impacts an estimated 1.6 million Americans with a cost of $14.4 billion annually. Read more...
Beams of Light to Treat Diabetes: UMKC Invention Gets Federal Funding Boost The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue work on an important advancement to help treat the tens of millions of people
Diabetes Reversed in Mice With Genetically Edited Stem Cells Derived From Patients Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have transformed stem cells into insulin-producing cells. They used the CRISPR gene-editing tool to correct a defect that caused a form of diabetes, and implanted the cells into
‘Primitive’ Stem Cells Shown to Regenerate Blood Vessels in The Eye Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have successfully turned back the biological hands of time, coaxing adult human cells in the laboratory to revert to a primitive state, and unlocking their potential to replace and repair damage to blood
Diabetes in Mice Cured Rapidly Using Human Stem Cell Strategy Researchers have converted human stem cells into insulin-producing cells and demonstrated in mice infused with such cells that blood sugar levels can be controlled and diabetes functionally cured for nine months. Read more...
KU Researchers Studying Possible Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease Can influencing the body's metabolism improve the brain's energy and how well it functions? Researchers at the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center are trying to answer this fundamental question with a new clinical trial involving individuals with Alzheimer's disease
SLU Research: Meaningful PTSD Symptom Decrease May Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk Research from Saint Louis University finds treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that leads to an improvement in symptoms was associated with a 49 percent lower risk of incident type 2 diabetes. Read more...