Medtronic and the US FDA shy away from calling the device an ‘artificial pancreas’ - patients still need to enter information about anticipated meals and instruct it to deliver bolus insulin ...

An international team of researchers has successfully reprogrammed human α cells into insulin-producing β cells, according to a study published yesterday (February 13) in Nature. In the pancreas, ...

In this type of diabetes, the immune system specifically destroys insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreatic islets — the body's own immune system attacks its own cells (a form of autoimmune ...