DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My wife is 31 and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 7. She had a baby three months ago, and her blood sugar levels were never really controlled. Doctors tested her kidney ...

Pancreatitis refers to inflammation of the pancreas, an organ located in the back of the upper abdomen, behind the stomach, that secretes hormones and digestive juices. The condition can occur as a ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says. Scientists at Duke ...

Conceptual diagram summarizing the central experiment comparing cell death in amyloid-β treated neuronal cells with and without pancreatic β cell culture supernatant. Pancreas cells may produce a ...

Two new studies show that the Covid-19 coronavirus may infect the β-cells in your pancreas and affect their ability to secrete insulin. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images) Add this to the ...

A key immune signal has a previously unknown role in turning off the immune system's attack on pancreatic cancer cells, a new study finds. Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the ...

In a new study published in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Chen-Yu Zhang's group and Antonio Vidal-Puig's group at University of Cambridge report that pancreatic β cells secrete miR-29 family ...

Researchers have developed a breakthrough therapy in the treatment of one of the world’s deadliest cancers: pancreatic cancer. Regulators designated Aduro Biotech Inc.'s new combination of CRS-207 and ...