Genetic variants contribute to individual variation in insulin response, including kinase activation, changes in gene expression and cell growth, suggesting kinase modulators as promising therapeutics ...

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

Children exposed to gestational diabetes in utero with a specific variation of a common gene are at a higher risk of becoming ...

Identifying proteomic signatures of insulin resistance in fasting muscle offers insights for personalized type 2 diabetes ...

Using deep learning techniques, scientists generated an artificial protein that successfully changes its shape to bind and ...

Model more closely replicates natural environment of the pancreas, which will be essential for studying diabetes and ...

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' are the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species, also providing evidence of eight instances in which ...

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

the first human insulin products were made using genetically engineered yeast cells. Novo launched the NovoPen - the first insulin pen device in 1985. Lars Rebien Sorensen becomes CEO after ...

To begin with, genetic engineering refers to the deliberate modification of an organism’s genome using biotechnology. Scientists can insert, delete, or alter specific DNA sequences to change the ...

The discovery of recombinant DNA proved that biology, not chemistry alone, could create new medicines like life-saving ...

For the first time, doctors have treated a baby born with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder with a gene-editing therapy scientists tailored to specifically repair his unique mutation.