Diabetes is a chronic health condition that impairs the body's ability to use or produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the conversion of sugar from food into energy, resulting in dangerously ...

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune condition affecting over 9 million people worldwide, caused by the body's immune system attacking the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, resulting in high ...

Once known as “juvenile” diabetes, type 1 diabetes was long considered a childhood disease. Although the condition is often diagnosed in children and teenagers, it can develop at any age. Type 1 ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to make some of his own insulin without immunosuppressants. Studies of ...

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks and slowly destroys these islets, leading to insulin deficiency. Remarkable progress has been made regarding the transplantation of islets, which remains ...

A new consensus report on the management of type 1 diabetes in adults was presented recently at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meetings. This is an EASD/American Diabetes ...

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...