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2018 Exclusive Interviews

Diabetes in Control speaks with top endocrinologists and other medical professionals to bring you the latest in diabetes news and research. Here's a roundup of the interviews we published in 2018, so you can catch up on anything you may have missed.

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International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus, 4th Ed., Excerpt #157: Monogenic Disorders of the Beta Cell Part 7

Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) most commonly results from heteroplasmic G to A substitution of the mitochondrial DNA at nucleotide pair 3243 in one of the two tRNA(Leu) genes. The same mutation that causes MIDD also causes a syndrome of severe neuromuscular disease called MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke). Within a family there is usually a dominant phenotype, although occasionally some members develop MIDD whilst others develop MELAS.

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Interview: New Drug Cocktail That Increases Human Beta Cell Proliferation at Rapid Rates

Diabetes in Control is pleased to bring you an exclusive interview with Dr. Andrew Stewart. Dr. Stewart and his fellow researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a novel combination of two classes of drugs that induces the highest rate of proliferation ever observed in adult human beta cells—the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. The result is an important step toward a diabetes treatment that restores the body’s ability to produce insulin. 

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