Tag: Type1-Diabetes-Mellitus

• New tissue-engineered platform for islet cell transplantation found effective in type 1 diabetic patients

  Researchers from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) have produced the clinical results demonstrating that pancreatic islet cells transplanted within a tissue-engineered platform can achieve insulin independence in type 1 diabetes. The research findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Fluorescence microscopy of islets in the omentum transplanted within the biologic scaffold. In…

  Sreeram Penna

  May 11, 2017

• Benefits of continuously monitoring blood glucose in Diabetic patients

  Researchers have found that significantly decreased blood sugar levels over time  and increased well-being are just some of the results of a long-term study at Sahlgrenska Academy of continuous glucose monitoring in persons with type 1 diabetes. “This is one of few new treatments in recent decades which significantly reduces blood sugar levels for persons with…

  Sreeram Penna

  February 1, 2017

• Protein biomarkers to screen early type 1 diabetes mellitus

  Certain proteins in the blood of children can predict incipient type 1 diabetes, even before the first symptoms appear. A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, partners in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), reported these findings in the ‘Diabetologia’ journal. The work was based on two large studies that are intended…

  Sreeram Penna

  November 7, 2016