Diabetes news from FierceBioResearcher

Swedish researchers have concluded that the number of fat cells present in the body is a constant, remaining unchanged regardless of how much a person weighs or gains. Every year about 10 percent of Read more...

With about 40 drug development projects in the pipeline, Germany's Merck KGaA says it will spend about €1 billion ($1.58 billion) on drug research this year. That R&D budget represents Read more...

What do you get when you mix 20 drug developers active in the diabetes field with a room full of geneticists? Hopefully, a new generation of therapies that pinpoint subsets of the disease, each with Read more...

The FDA is taking a look at a fresh set of standards that demand new tests to determine if diabetes drugs elevate heart risks. Safety advocates sounded approving after seeing the FDA draft guidance Read more...

Scientists have unveiled yet another study on the potential of resveratrol. The chemical, which is found in red wine as Read more...

A team of Australian scientists has found an enzyme in diabetics that prevents them from producing insulin. The researchers say that they intend to start working with drug developers to block Read more...

Experiments using genetically-engineered pigs to make them compatible with the human immune system are raising expectations about the prospects of cross-species transplantation as an option for Read more...

Scientists working for Bio Sidus in Argentina have developed a genetically modified cow that can produce insulin in its milk. The company says the four cloned calves will start producing the insulin-rich milk when they reach maturity. To clone the cows, scientists insert a human gene into an embryo, which is then implanted in the mother. The insulin is later extracted from the milk. Bio Sidus said that the procedure can be used to develop insulin for 30 percent less than current methods …

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Bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego have painstakingly assembled a virtual human metabolic network that will give researchers a new way to hunt for better treatments for hundreds of human metabolic disorders--from diabetes to high levels …

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Taiwanese researchers have developed a new method for providing insulin to diabetics. Instead of injecting insulin, a standard delivery method, they developed tiny spheres made from shrimp cells that could survive the acid in the stomach and would pass through the small intestine, delivering the insulin into the blood. The process was tested successfully on rats. The research indicates that the current process requires a large amount of insulin. Advocates for diabetics said they would …

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