Diabetes News

March 8, 2025

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Links Between Metabolism and Aggressive Breast Cancer

Mar. 6, 2025 — More than 120 million Americans suffer from diabetes or pre-diabetes. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, and TNBC patients with obesity-driven diabetes often have worse outcomes. A new study helps ...

Early-Life Gut Microbes May Protect Against Diabetes, Research in Mice Suggests

Mar. 6, 2025 — The microbiome shapes development of insulin-producing cells in infancy, leading to long-term changes in metabolism and diabetes risk, new research in mice has found. The results could ultimately ...

How to Trick the Body's Metabolism

Mar. 3, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new way in which the liver regulates its consumption of sugar and fat. This could potentially increase the effectiveness of weight-loss and diabetes ...

Researchers Identify Molecular Glues That Protect Insulin-Producing Cells from Damage Related to Diabetes

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a novel approach to protecting insulin-producing beta cells from the damaging effects of glucolipotoxicity - a harmful condition linked to the progression of type 2 ...

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Obesity: Researchers Discover a Cause of Leptin Resistance -- And How to Reverse It

Mar. 4, 2025 — Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, ...

We Feed Gut Microbes Sugar, They Make a Compound We Need

Mar. 3, 2025 — Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The ...

Lifestyle Choices During Pregnancy Can Impact Child's Motor Development Up to the Age of 5-6 Years

Feb. 25, 2025 — A healthy diet in early pregnancy supports the child's motor development at the age of 5-6 years. Higher maternal body fat mass, on the other hand, ...

Obesity Starts in the Brain

Feb. 28, 2025 — A study has provided new insights into the role of the brain as a crucial control center and the origin of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The hormone insulin plays a key role in the development of ...

Discovery of Rare Gene Variants Provides Window Into Tailored Type 2 Diabetes Treatment

Feb. 26, 2025 — A new study details the discovery of rare gene variants that increase the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in multiple generations of Asian Indian ...

Understanding the World Within: Study Reveals New Insights Into Phage--Bacteria Interactions in the Gut Microbiome

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers are investigating whether certain viruses known as bacteriophages, or phages, which specifically infect bacteria but not human cells, ...

Study Shows Primary Care and Telehealth Can Deliver Life-Changing Diabetes Care

Feb. 24, 2025 — Researchers have found that people with diabetes can achieve the same positive results using advanced insulin technology when trained by their ...

Genetic Evidence That Diabetes Drug GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Achieve Weight Loss Primarily by Reducing Fat Mass More Than Muscle

Feb. 24, 2025 — Diabetes and obesity have become pressing health issues worldwide. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, a class of medications widely ...

Islet Transplantation With Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

Feb. 21, 2025 — Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in ...

New Molecular Mechanisms Linked to Insulin Resistance

Feb. 19, 2025 — Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In affected people, insulin is unable to ...

A Diabetes, Heart Failure, and Kidney Disease Medication Is the First of Its Kind to Significantly Reduce Both Heart Attacks and Strokes

Feb. 14, 2025 — New research shows sotagliflozin is the only drug in its class to demonstrate these ...

Mouse Study Finds Impaired Cell Development: Intermittent Fasting Could Be Unsafe for Teenagers

Feb. 14, 2025 — A recent study reveals that age plays a significant role in the outcomes of intermittent fasting. Researchers discovered that chronic intermittent fasting disrupted the development of ...

A New Switch for the Cell Therapies of the Future

Feb. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind to ...

Reduced Prediabetes in People Who Ate Broccoli Compound

Feb. 14, 2025 — The chemical compound sulforaphane found in broccoli sprouts can be linked to improved blood sugar levels in prediabetes, a precursor to type 2 diabetes. The broccoli compound had a more significant ...

Diabetes Can Drive the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection ...

Type 1 Diabetes: Hybrid Closed-Loop and Open-Loop Systems Compared

Feb. 12, 2025 — People with type 1 diabetes require continuous insulin treatment and must regularly measure their glucose levels. With open-loop therapies, insulin administration is manually controlled, while hybrid ...

Mitochondria May Hold the Key to Curing Diabetes

Feb. 7, 2025 — Mitochondria are essential for generating energy that fuels cells and helps them ...

Why Some Heavy Drinkers Develop Advanced Liver Disease, While Others Do Not

Feb. 6, 2025 — The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver ...

New Details About Insulin Production Deciphered

Feb. 5, 2025 — How does the body regulate the activity of insulin-producing cells in order to react quickly to changing conditions? Researchers have investigated this ...

Drinking Ketones Improves Heart Health, Study Suggests

Feb. 5, 2025 — Drinking ketones improves heart health, a new small-scale study has ...

Yo-Yo Dieting May Significantly Increase Kidney Disease Risk in People With Type 1 Diabetes

Feb. 4, 2025 — Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index (BMI) and other ...

Gut Microbes May Mediate the Link Between Drinking Sugary Beverages and Diabetes Risk

Jan. 31, 2025 — It's well known that consuming sugary drinks increases the risk of diabetes, but the mechanism behind this relationship is unclear. Now researchers show that metabolites produced by gut microbes ...

A Weekly Injection Could Replace Painful Daily Treatment for Rare Fat Disorder

Jan. 29, 2025 — A diabetes drug may beat costly shots for patients with a rare genetic condition, according to a Rutgers Health ...

Exercise Improves Brain Function, Possibly Reducing Dementia Risk

Jan. 23, 2025 — Scientists have shown that specialized cells involved in how the body responds to insulin are activated in the brain after exercise, suggesting that physical activity may directly improve brain ...

Your Stroke Risk Might Be Higher If Your Parents Divorced During Your Childhood

Jan. 22, 2025 — People whose parents divorced during their childhood may be at a greater risk of stroke later in life, according to a new ...

Continuous Glucose Monitor Data Predicts Type 1 Diabetes Complications

Jan. 15, 2025 — Data from continuous glucose monitors can predict nerve, eye and kidney damage caused by type 1 diabetes researchers have found. That suggests doctors may be able to use data from the devices to help ...

Electrifying Your Workout Can Boost Muscles Mass, Strength

Jan. 9, 2025 — A team of researchers discovered that combining neuromuscular electrical stimulation with resistance training results in greater muscle mass and strength compared to resistance training ...

Intermittent Fasting Is Effective for Weight Loss and Improves Cardiovascular Health in People With Obesity Problems

Jan. 8, 2025 — Scientists have conducted a pioneering study on the benefits of intermittent fasting. Not eating anything from 5 p.m. until 9 a.m. the following day (early fasting) helps to a greater extent to ...

Study Challenges Traditional Risk Factors for Brain Health in the Oldest-Old

Jan. 7, 2025 — A study has found cardiovascular conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which are known to contribute to brain blood vessel damage in younger populations, not to be associated with an ...

Breakthrough Study Reveals How Assisted Reproduction Affects Placenta and Child's Growth

Dec. 20, 2024 — Researchers have studied placental genes to explore how Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) affects a child's development. Differences showed up between pregnancies from frozen and fresh ...