POSTS TAGGED AS endocrinology

Stem Cell-Derived Pituitary Gland

This is one of those things that is almost inconceivable until it happens: scientists at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Developmental [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Now in Trials

Last November, Medtronic began clinical trials of its “Enlite” sensor that continuously monitors glucose levels over six days.  The [MORE]

Diabetes Prevalence Since 1980

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, a group of public health [MORE]

Ear-Implanted Microbeads to Monitor Blood Glucose

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Life Bio Electromechanical Autonomous Nano Systems Center recently reported in [MORE]

Predicting Diabetes

Starting from samples in blood biorepositories, where diabetes outcomes were tracked over time and known, scientists at Tethys Bioscience [MORE]

Bihormonal Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas

The April 14th issue of Science Translational Medicine has a research article describing how bioengineers at Boston University and [MORE]

Glucometer Phone

In a study Partners Healthcare (Boston) sponsored, more than two-thirds of parents with a diabetic child said they would be [MORE]

Spit Test for Type 2 Diabetes

Srinivasa Nagulia, MD,  president and CEO of Diabetomics LLC (Beaverton, OR) has developed a proteomic test, based on 65 markers [MORE]

Glowing Skin

Using a material of 120-nm polymer beads containing a fluorescent dye and glucose specific sensing molecules, Heather Clark, at the [MORE]

Sleep, Diabetes and Obesity

A group of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Bariatric Surgery Clinic have reported finding a link between [MORE]