Northwestern University researchers have developed a thermoresponsive antioxidant biomaterial that they suggest may in the future be used to help improve the survival and function of islet cells in ...

Severe chronic pancreatitis is treated by removing the pancreas. Without a pancreas, patients also lose insulin-producing cells called islets. To preserve insulin responses, surgeons transplant islets ...

Your pancreas, crucial for digestion and blood sugar, can signal distress through persistent abdominal pain, unexplained ...

(BPT) - Eating is often a challenge for people with pancreatic cancer because they are living with ongoing symptoms from their cancer, or from surgery or other treatments. The normal functions of the ...

Age-dependent changes in pancreatic function related to diabetes have been identified by researchers. The research collaboration to procure and analyze human pancreatic tissue from deceased donors ...

The pancreas is essential for staying alive and healthy. This small organ sits behind the stomach and has two main jobs. It ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have established a novel transplantation site for islets of Langerhans that enables long-term intravital microscopy of islet physiology in awake mice with ...

This is mostly because symptoms only appear when the disease has significantly progressed. Whereas some of the risk factors include age, genetics, and family history-all of which are beyond human ...

Sudden-onset diabetes is usually the body's way of signaling that the pancreas is under strain or has already begun to lose ...

An annular pancreas is a rare congenital deformity (one that you are born with) that affects the pancreas. It happens when your pancreas doesn’t develop as it should. Instead, a ring of extra ...

The negative health effects of cigarettes are well known, but many people don’t realize the significant link between pancreatic cancer and smoking. Smoking cigarettes can have a negative impact on ...