Research has identified a mechanism through which insulin-like growth factors facilitate brain plasticity. The insulin super-family of hormones, including insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1), ...

Artistic rendering generated by DALL.E. “The drawing of the fruit fly Drosophila in a dark background in the style of Seurat". The researchers fed fruit flies high sugar diets and examined the effect ...

A 5-day high-caloric diet triggered liver fat accumulation and disrupted brain insulin action in men with a healthy body weight, with effects persisting even after resuming a normal diet. Researchers ...

A clinical trial from Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that two widely available medications, the diabetes drug empagliflozin (Jardiance) and intranasal insulin, safely improve brain ...

A new study published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences discusses the impact of herpes, influenza, hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

For more than a hundred years, insulin has been the key to controlling type 1 diabetes. It has saved lives by preventing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening condition that happens when the ...

Researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany have found that women become more sensitive to the effects of insulin during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, and less sensitive to it ...

Hypoglycemia is a life-threatening complication of malignant insulinoma that can be refractory to maximal medical therapy that targets the tumor and insulin secretion and action simultaneously. We ...