Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a new way to regulate blood glucose levels using a lab-designed protein, possibly opening the door to a new treatment avenue ...

Hormones are chemical messages that send signals throughout the body. They work slowly and affect body growth, development, metabolism, sexual function, mood, and other functions. Many medications are ...

Insulin has proven an invaluable, life-saving hormone since the first diabetes sufferers were injected with it in the 1920s, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Scientists at the ...

Fatty liver disease and insulin resistance are closely linked conditions that quietly affect millions globally, often going ...

NORFOLK -- Scientists have cloned the insulin cells of a 32-year-old woman diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes at age ten and created insulin-producing cells with her own DNA. Dieter Egli, of the New York ...

Researchers found that insulin release upon seeing or smelling appetizing food depends on a short-term inflammatory response. The corresponding study was published in Cell Metabolism. It has been ...

Neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin (named after the scientist Hans Christian Hagedorn who invented it) peaks in about 6 to 8 hours, with a duration of up to 12 hours. This type of insulin is ...