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The second phase of the Human Microbiome Project reports on microbial composition in prediabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and pregnancy.

Scientists engineered human cells to produce a molecule that stimulates insulin secretion in the presence of caffeine.

Low levels of a biochemical process involved in fat breakdown predicts weight gain and metabolic complications more than a decade later.

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

New findings suggest that promoting the growth of fiber-loving bacteria may help manage type 2 diabetes.

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.

Three studies—one of mice and two of human genetics—describe the role of two proteins, adenylyl cyclase and melanocortin 4 receptor, in the development of obesity and diabetes.