The resulting atlas advances basic research on the biology of the pancreas and could lead ... Institute and the Ansary Stem Cell Institute and the Arthur B. Belfer Professor in Genetic Medicine ...

Our perspective about glucose toxicity as it pertains to the pancreatic ß-cell is that the characteristic decreases in insulin synthesis and secretion are caused by decreased insulin gene expression.

Pancreatic cancer patients may benefit from ... such as activated regulatory T cells (Tregs) and B cells, in the immunopathology of this disease. The team found that these cells could help to ...

NETs grow in the cells that make hormones. These tumors usually don't grow as fast as the more common kind of pancreatic cancer. Treatments can remove them, slow their growth, and reduce symptoms.

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 ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Pancreatic neuroendocrine cancers are rare cancers. They start in the neuroendocrine cells of the pancreas. Your healthcare team might call them pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms, or pancreatic NENs ...

Adding immunotherapy to new KRAS inhibitors boosted responses in preclinical models, setting the stage for future trials of the combination strategy.

There is now emerging evidence that male obesity negatively impacts male reproductive potential not only by reducing sperm quality, but in particular altering the physical and molecular structure of ...