Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says. Scientists at Duke ...

Scientists say they’ve come up with a way for the body to produce its own store of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-1 is ...

Researchers have developed a new organoid that mimics the human fetal pancreas, offering a clearer view of its early development. The researchers were able to recreate a complete structure that ...

Hans Clevers, PhD, has been working on organoids from the beginning. He was group leader for twenty years at the Hubrecht Institute and has been head of pharma research and early development (pRED) of ...

In today’s world, Ozempic and ultra-processed foods (UPF) go almost hand in hand. On one hand, thanks to excessive consumption of UPF and sedentary lifestyle, obesity has surpassed undernourishment ...

An organoid containing all three pancreatic cell lineages has been developed for the first time, providing a clearer picture of how the pancreas develops. Organoids can help us better understand ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and ...

Doctors may soon have a new tool in the fight against one of the most aggressive and lethal forms of cancer—in the form of an 'early warning' signature of precancerous cells. This is the promise of a ...

Researchers from the Organoid group (previously Clevers group) at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new organoid that mimics the human fetal pancreas, offering a clearer view of its early ...