Pancreas cells may produce a protein that can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. In individuals with Alzheimer's disease, a peptide known as amyloid-β accumulates and forms tangled plaques.

The researchers were able to recreate a complete structure that includes the three key cell types in the pancreas, which previous organoids couldn't fully mimic. Notably, the team identified a new ...

Multiple diagnostic criteria have been proposed. For example, the Japanese Pancreas Society (2002 and 2006) and Histology, Imaging, Serology, Other Organ Involvement and Response to therapy (HISORt).

In this type of diabetes, the immune system specifically destroys insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreatic islets — the body's own immune system attacks its own cells (a form of autoimmune ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have found RNA neoantigen vaccines that generate long-lived, functional CD8 + T cells in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC ...