How Does Tzield Work in Type 1 Diabetes? Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which your immune system mistakenly attacks and damages the beta cells in your pancreas. The beta cells produce ...

Researchers engineered immune cells that protect insulin-producing cell transplants, bringing scientists closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes.

While it has long been known that type 1 diabetes runs in families, experts are less certain about what actually starts the autoimmune attack that defines the disease. Most people with type 1 diabetes ...

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the pancreas makes little to no insulin, which causes high blood sugar. Jessica Migala has been a health, fitness, and nutrition writer for ...