Scientists at City of Hope have uncovered a gene called SMOC1 that plays a surprising role in the development of type 2 ...

For years, scientists have focused their attention on the pancreas’ insulin-producing beta cells and left small clusters of ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says.

The term beta diversity has been used to refer to a wide variety of phenomena. Although all of these encompass some kind of compositional heterogeneity between places, many are not related to each ...

A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar.