Tokyo said four Chinese government ships entered contested waters around a group of Japanese-held islands on Wednesday, in a ...

Advances in stem cell biology and immune cell engineering bring diabetes cell therapies closer to reality. I n 2024, a woman ...

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks and slowly destroys these islets, leading to insulin deficiency. Remarkable progress has been made regarding the transplantation of islets ...

Islets, found in the pancreas, are clusters of insulin-secreting and other cells enmeshed in tiny, specialized blood vessels. The insulin cells are killed by an autoimmune process in type 1 ...

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 ...

Clusters of cells called islets in the pancreas produce the hormone and determine the amount based on blood sugar levels. The higher the glucose, the more insulin goes into production to balance ...

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical ...

Seoul strongly protested Japan's renewed territorial claim over Dokdo, Saturday, following an event held in Shimane ...

22, 2025, to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan. (Kyodo) MATSUE, Japan (Kyodo) -- The 20th edition of an annual ceremony to assert Japan's claim ...