The gut–islets axis connects nutrient sensing in the intestine with insulin secretion from the pancreas and plays an essential role in glucose regulation. GLP-1 released by intestinal L cells can ...

Peking University, August 29, 2025: Professor Deng Hongkui’s team from the Peking University School of Life Sciences recently made the first successful differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells ...

How do living cells respond to physical forces, including those relayed from the complex cellular and extracellular microenvironment within a tissue? We know that these forces affect nearly every ...

A new study by researchers at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in August 2020 ...

Scientists recently developed an efficient way to transplant pancreatic islets and demonstrated that the method can effectively reverse type 1 diabetes in nonhuman primates. In people with type 1 ...

This hormone-producing function is localized to the islets of Langerhans, which constitute clusters of different endocrine cell types. Among those are beta cells, which produce the hormone insulin ...

A team of medical researchers and doctors affiliated with several universities and two hospitals in the U.S. reports that administration of vitamin D2 to patients newly diagnosed with diabetes type 1 ...

Camillo Ricordi, MD, FNAI, describes the process of islet transplantation and how it can benefit individuals with type 1 diabetes. Islet transplantation allows the liver to complete both its normal ...

Professor Deng Hongkui's team from the Peking University School of Life Sciences has made the first successful differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into fully endocrine-subtype-complete ...