Tag: diabetes research

Cedars-Sinai stem cell researchers investigating ways to prevent eye problems in diabetic patients have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Eye Institute to develop gene therapy in corneal stem cells to alleviate damage to corneas that can cause vision loss. "Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults," said Alexander V. ...

MELBOURNE researchers are a step nearer to developing a vaccine for type 1 diabetes, after showing that a nasal spray can stop the body's immune system from attacking insulin-producing cells.

ImaginAb, Inc. has been invited to join KeyMarker, a leading consortium of Belgian academic scientists and biotech companies for the discovery of new diagnostic and therapeutic targets for diabetes. This consortium is established under the framework of Biowin, the Health Competitiveness Cluster of the Walloon Region from Belgium. It is coordinated by IBA Molecular with Eurogentec and TraSis as industrial partners. ...

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) today announced results from a study that showed treatment with metreleptin, an investigational treatment that is an analog of the human hormone leptin, improved diabetes and lipid control in patients with partial lipodystrophy. Data from this study, the first findings from patients receiving metreleptin through Amylin's lipodystrophy expanded access program, ...

Oswego, NY -- Webe Kadima’s father is never far from her side, whether she is teaching chemistry at the State University College at Oswego or researching diabetes drugs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kadima, 53, associate professor of chemistry at Oswego State, will leave for the Congo again on June 11 to spend the summer ...

Studying the genetic make-up of different varieties of lipids (fatty molecules) in the blood plasma of an individual can lead to a better and earlier prediction of diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and heart disease, two researchers will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday 30 May). In the ...

For patients with both heart disease and diabetes who took part in a pooled series of rigorous clinical trials, the Resolute drug-eluting stent (DES) from Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), provided remarkably safe and effective outcomes, according to the results of several studies presented today at EuroPCR, a major international meeting for cardiac and vascular specialists. ...

The road to type 2 diabetes is paved with insulin resistance, a condition often associated with obesity in which the hormone begins to fail at its job helping to convert sugars to energy. Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have now identified an enzyme called PKC-delta as an important molecular modifier for development of insulin resistance, ...

ScienceDaily (May 15, 2011) — Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have identified that the removal of cholesterol by a key enzyme called CEH can attenuate inflammation and subsequently affect the development of diabetes, paving the way for new target therapies that may one day prevent diabetes and help predict a patient's susceptibility to ...

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) announced today that they have entered into a research collaboration agreement to provide financial support for a series of clinical studies to investigate the feasibility of mixing pramlintide, an analog of the human hormone amylin, with insulin to treat type 1 diabetes. Pramlintide, ...