Entries from Newstrend tagged with 'diabetes'

New Hope for a Diabetes Cure

In the September 2006 issue of the journal Nature, Stanford researchers published their findings that a protein called calcineurin is involved in diabetes. Their research reveals that calcineurin is very important for the growth of special insulin-producing cells in the pancreas called beta cells. Insulin is the hormone that regulates sugar levels in the blood by telling cells to increase their sugar intake.