Lactation boosts the quantity and quality of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, likely reducing a woman’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Breastfeeding reduces type 2 diabetes risk by boosting beta cells.

One patient with diabetes was able to reduce his medication use while receiving targeted electrical pulses.

The new classification system could help improve personalized medicine approaches to the disease.

The longtime professor at Stanford University School of Medicine researched the role of insulin in diabetes, hypertension, and a plethora of other diseases.

Exosomes produced by macrophages in fatty tissue influence insulin sensitivity in distant cell types, a study finds.

Insulin resistance and high levels of insulin and lipids all precede the development of metabolic dysfunction. Which metabolic factor is to blame?

Lipids and insulin play important roles in blood sugar regulation, and altered levels of either could kick start metabolic dysfunction.

Patients with neonatal progeroid syndrome lack a glucose-releasing hormone, while people with insulin resistance have an abundance.

DNA released from dying fat cells stimulates inflammation within murine fat tissue. 

Guenther Boden, who linked insulin resistance with fatty acids in the blood, has passed away at age 80.

Overeating and inactivity lead to insulin resistance in just days—and oxidative stress is to blame.

Obese people are at higher risk for developing cancer, have worse prognoses once diagnosed, and are often resistant to chemotherapy regimens. The question is, Why?

Factors that likely contribute to obesity include disruptions to intercellular signaling, increased inflammation, and changes to the gut microbiome.
 

Authors retract a paper on grizzlies’ metabolism after finding one person made up data.

A microneedle patch automatically releases insulin in response to high glucose levels.

A genetic mapping study of intestinal bacteria shows that people with fewer and less diverse bacteria are at greater risk of obesity and associated diseases.

Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.

By silencing two microRNAs, researchers were able to improve insulin sensitivity in overweight mice.