Male, 32 years of age. Works erratic hours. Recently came up with a plan of how to remember to take his meds. He started setting up and taking his pill box with him. He has succeeded at taking his medications and taking them on time…all except his injectable medications.

We are at the ADA in New Orleans and as I was looking over the posters, there was a whole section focused on Gene Expression and Biosynthesis. There were multiple small population projects on what might cause the mutations and proposed mechanisms to fix  or prevent the problems that these …

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Paul Chous discusses the significance of studies around the three anti-VEGF injections that seek to determine which is the best.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the Canadian Diabetes Association's guidelines for the pharmacologic treatment of type 2 diabetes, which dictate that the choice of therapy depends on glycemia.

Insulin biosynthesis: the previous section outlines that insulin gene transcription is a highly controlled process. The product of this process, pre-proinsulin mRNA, is unusually stable in pancreatic beta cells and it is further stabilized as glucose concentrations increase. As such, there is normally an abundant source of preproinsulin mRNA in the beta-cell cytosol available for translation.