Understanding how the human pancreas develops is crucial to allow scientists to make insulin producing–beta cells in the quest to cure type 1 diabetes. Now, scientists have made a unique and ...

PanCAN Chief Scientific & Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit explains why we are in a new era of progress against pancreatic ...

Researchers at Umeå University have conducted a unique three-dimensional mapping of an entire human pancreas. The study shows ...

Hans Clevers, PhD, has been working on organoids from the beginning. He was group leader for twenty years at the Hubrecht Institute and has been head of pharma research and early development (pRED) of ...

Nearly 98% of the human genome does not encode proteins but comprises noncoding sequences—the “dark genome”—such as regulatory sequences that control gene transcription (enhancer elements). Thousands ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team headed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Chicago provides important insight into how the pancreas protects itself ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. This is largely due to the cancer being detected at a late stage. In addition, treatment options for pancreatic cancer are limited. Therefore ...

UK scientists behind a breath test for detecting pancreatic cancer said they were moving to a next stage of development aimed at determining its accuracy. Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL), ...

Oleic acid, the main fat in olive oil, could have an unexpected effect: it promotes the development of pancreatic cancer.