Obesity increases the body's need for insulin, forcing cells in the pancreas known as beta cells to ramp up insulin ...

Diabetes is a lifelong, chronic health condition caused by abnormalities in the body’s production and use of the hormone insulin. Research has shown that the feel-good hormone, dopamine (DA), plays a ...

Research has shown that dopamine (DA) plays a key role in how the body regulates the production of insulin. Typically, insulin is secreted by beta-cells in the pancreas in response to glucose—a ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) Volume 17, Issue 5, on May 1, 2025, titled "Oxytocin modulates insulin and GLP-1 secretion in pancreatic islets." In this study, scientists from ...

Women, Hispanic individuals, and people with a body mass index above 30 kg/m2 are more likely to have an increase in insulin when they have severe snoring. Data from this study were taken from the ...

Insulin glargine (Lantus ®, sanofi-aventis) claims to have a 24-hour duration of action. Is there any advantage to using it twice daily? If so, what patient population might benefit from twice-daily ...

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 ...

When lipid biologist Usha Acharya at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) tinkered with lipid breakdown pathways in Drosophila melanogaster, she observed something intriguing. Blocking a biochemical ...

In a 14-month follow-up, Sana Biotechnology has found that its investigational allogeneic cell therapy continued to produce insulin in one patient with Type 1 diabetes, with no safety concerns ...