KYOTO—Kyoto University Hospital officials announced on April 14 that a research team conducted a clinical trial in ...

"If we want to develop cell culture models for diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and depression, we need to take the specific type of nerve cell involved into consideration." ...

How does each cell type know where to position itself within the lymph node? Until now, the answers to these questions remained unclear for certain immune cell types. A new study from the University ...

Disease-modifying therapies for type 1 diabetes are beginning to move care beyond insulin replacement by targeting immune ...

Recent clinical trials have shown promising results of transplanting these cells into individuals with Type 1 diabetes: ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a critical hormone that regulates blood sugar in the body. Scientists at Scripps ...

Research on preventing type 1 diabetes often focuses on limiting the autoimmune response that destroys the body’s ability to produce its own insulin. A new technology developed by scientists at the ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when lysosomes, the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, break down or ...

A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

A decade ago, a clinical trial in the U.K. notably showed that children who were exposed to peanuts in the early months of life had reduced risk of developing a peanut allergy compared with children ...