Selecta Biosciences, which is the creation of MIT’s prolific Bob Langer, is collaborating with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to create a synthetic nano-particle vaccine program that will help treat and even prevent the development of Type 1 diabetes. While it is widely accepted that there are more people suffering from Type 2 diabetes than [...]
Researchers have found out that diabetics with insomnia register higher levels of insulin resistance and may find it more difficult to control their blood glucose. According to Kristen Knutson PhD, assistant professor of medicine and lead author of the study, “People who have a hard time controlling their blood glucose levels have a greater risk [...]
It seems that type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance may be linked to an ineffective immune system, according to new research. As per the study’s co-author Dr. Daniel Winer, an endocrine pathologist at Toronto General Hospital in Canada, “The main point of this study is trying to shift the emphasis on thinking of type 2 [...]
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has gauged that fatty acids as a result of high-fat diet can stimulate immune cells to create interleukin-1beta, which is a protein that is inflammatory and leads to diabetes type 2 and insulin resistance. The study’s senior co-author Jenny Y. Ting, William [...]
According to a new research, caffeine could lead to the development of diabetes. As per James Lane, PhD, Duke University, there are many studies that have been conducted which show that caffeine increases insulin resistance thereby increasing the risk of diabetes in people who do not have the disease. Moreover, this study comes hot on [...]
It has been estimated at present that around 57 million people have pre-diabetes. There are 26 million people already with diabetes. Moreover, it has been identified that one out of two people are diagnosed with diabetes have around one diabetes-related complication when they were first diagnosed. The cost of diabetes is very alarming. In 2007 [...]
Insulin resistance can be termed as a pre-diabetic condition in which the chances of a person developing diabetes, and diseases of the heart, increases manifold. Awareness about insulin resistance and the motivation to make changes in one’s lifestyle can prevent the onset of diabetes, heart diseases and other health related problems. The food that is [...]
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes is caused when the pancreas does not produce enough or absolutely no insulin at all. Diabetes can also be caused when the insulin produced is ineffective. Diabetes can be of three kinds. The type1 diabetes, the type 2 diabetes and the gestational diabetes. The causes of diabetes in these [...]
