Dr. Perrier: "We are getting closer to the goal of developing a standard treatment for diabetes that could one day make ...

Powering medical implants can be tricky, but tapping into the body’s own fuel source could keep them going long-term. A new design for a tiny fuel cell converts glucose into electricity to power ...

How Insulin Secreting Cells Maintain Their Glucose Sensitivity Date: September 7, 2007 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: Scientists have now disclosed the mystery how the insulin-secreting ...

A team of international scientists has made a major leap forward in diabetes research by successfully 3D printing functional ...

Cells import the sugar glucose for the process of glycolysis, ... a structure in the developing embryo that marks the beginning of gastrulation.

It's because cancer cells are perfectly willing to switch to another fuel source – uridine (Figure 1). Figure 1. (L) Glucose, the primary fuel of the body. (R) The chemical structure of uridine ...

Retina cells use glucose similarly, only rather than using it to sustain and spread cancer, they use it to generate new photoreceptor outer segments that replace the old, damaged ones. Du and his ...

Dysfunctions of the tiny cell processes (primary cilia*) of the pancreatic beta cells could be a cause of type 2 diabetes. Little is known about the structure and function of these cilia. An ...

Tests using mouse pancreatic beta cells revealed that Green Glifons can be easily used to visualize glucose alongside the red fluorescent calcium indicator, Rhod-2. To verify whether Glifons are ...

One of the hallmarks of cancer cell development is its dependence on sugar, especially glucose, to grow and divide. Scientists have long been studying how to restrict or block this process that ...