Research News From March 6, 2013
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- Nocturnal Glucose Control with an Artificial Pancreas at a Diabetes Camp. See also Artificial Pancreas Worked Overnight on Kids With Type 1 Diabetes.
- Overnight automated type 1 diabetes control under MD-logic closed-loop system: a randomized crossover trial.
- Does farm environment protect against type 1 diabetes mellitus? Free full text available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Identification of a SIRT1 Mutation in a Family with Type 1 Diabetes. See also First single gene mutation shown to result in type 1 diabetes and First Single Gene Mutation Shown to Result in Type 1 Diabetes.
- Treatment of diabetes mellitus with microencapsulated fetal human liver (FH-B-TPN) engineered cells.
- The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data explores the impact of exposure to sugar on the risk of type 2 diabetes — still quite relevant to anyone with type 1 diabetes. See also Study: Sugar � Not Obesity � Causes Diabetes and Sugar In Diet Linked To Type 2 Diabetes Rates, Study Finds.
- The Diabetes Research Institute announced the DRI BioHub, an artificial organ platform designed to protect islets and provide euglycemia without whole-body immunosuppression, as is required by traditional islet transplants. This announcement of this effort generated heated discussion throughout the online community, not all of it positive. For more, see the following:
- This Could Be It…. What We Have Been Waiting For Since Diagnosis!!!!
- A Message from Diabetes Dad.
- Could it be….
- New DRI Mini �BioHub� Organ Would Mimic a Healthy Pancreas.
- Hope without hype is all we ask (the one when I wish it started differently).
- Don�t Believe the Hype.
- News from the DRI.
- Our Community.
- My Take on the Hub-bub About the Bio Hub.
- Empathy. Honoring struggle without trite solutions.
- Meanwhile, In Other News….
