The resulting atlas advances basic research on the biology of the pancreas and could lead ... Institute and the Ansary Stem Cell Institute and the Arthur B. Belfer Professor in Genetic Medicine ...

Pancreas cells may produce a protein that can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. In individuals with Alzheimer's disease, a peptide known as amyloid-β accumulates and forms tangled plaques.

An international team of researchers has successfully reprogrammed human α cells into insulin-producing β cells, according to a study published yesterday (February 13) in Nature. In the pancreas, ...

In this type of diabetes, the immune system specifically destroys insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreatic islets — the body's own immune system attacks its own cells (a form of autoimmune ...

Pancreatic neuroendocrine cancers are rare cancers. They start in the neuroendocrine cells of the pancreas. Your healthcare team might call them pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms, or pancreatic NENs ...

NETs grow in the cells that make hormones. These tumors usually don't grow as fast as the more common kind of pancreatic cancer. Treatments can remove them, slow their growth, and reduce symptoms.