It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system has learned to attack islet cells in the pancreas and relentlessly destroy them. New ...

Stanford researchers have cured type 1 diabetes in mice by resetting their immune systems with a two-step transplant strategy ...

There’s a cliché in the type 1 diabetes community that a cure has been “five years away” for as long as anyone can remember. For decades, patients have been told that researchers were on the verge of ...

A phase 1/2 trial of a novel viral vector gene therapy in adults with type 1 diabetes is scheduled to begin this year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Islet cells in the pancreas A specially devised hybrid treatment has shown tremendous potential for treating type 1 diabetes in ...

A potential cure for type 1 diabetes has been identified by scientists in a new mouse study. In an animal study, researchers at Stanford School of Medicine discovered that resetting the immune system ...

A team at Stanford Medicine has delivered something people with Type 1 diabetes have waited decades to hear: a cure in animals that does not rely on toxic chemotherapy or lifelong immune drugs. In ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Patients with Type 1 diabetes have lost the specialized pancreatic cells that produce insulin, putting them at risk for dangerous seizures or loss of consciousness due to severe low ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. On one wall of endocrinologist Kevan Herold’s ...

When Amanda Smith walked into the kitchen one night in 2015 to warm up a bottle for her four-month-old daughter, she couldn’t make out the numbers on the microwave. They were blurry. They’d never been ...