A team at Zhejiang University, China, has recently released a study documenting an improved smart insulin system in animal models—the current work doesn’t involve any human testing.

The truth is clear: Animal models aren’t just helpful; they’re irreplaceable. They remain central to understanding the ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have succeeded in showing, in an animal model, that the process of ...

Through the 1970s, the only form of insulin available was animal insulin, mainly extracted from the pancreases of cows and pigs. In 1982, the FDA approved the first “human insulin” product ...

Although not identical to human insulin, animal based insulins were a highly effective treatment. The development of insulin therapy transformed diabetes from an acute, fatal disease to a chronic ...

By injecting the boy, the team hoped to confirm what they had already seen in animals: Something extracted from a healthy pancreas regulates blood sugar. And scientists already had a name for this ...