No risk of transferring infections. More effective at treating diabetes as animal insulin is different to human insulin. No ethical issues concerning the use of animals.

Genetic engineering has revolutionized the field of medicine by enabling the production of recombinant proteins, such as insulin and human growth hormone, in bacteria or other host organisms. Gene ...

The findings, published today in Nature Medicine, show that these genetic factors also lead to quicker development of health complications, earlier need for insulin treatment, and a weaker response to ...

"The holy grail is to make islet cells that the body adopts as its own, which function normally to sense glucose and produce the appropriate amount of insulin," says Professor Grey. Professor Grey and ...

Diabetes drug development gets an advance in study that shows Inceptor binds excess insulin within the beta cell and directs it towards degradation.