News-Archive 2016 to 2020

Prediabetes: Fatty Liver, Visceral Obesity, impaired Production and Action of Insulin modulate Risk

Prediabetes is associated with increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia and cancer. However, the disease risk considerably varies among subjects. In "The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology" DZD scientists have now summarized…

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Metabolism research: How fasting helps fight fatty liver disease

Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München have new information on what happens at the molecular level when we go hungry. Working with the Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung (German Center for Diabetes Research - DZD) and the Deutsches…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Portraits von Dr. Andreas Beyerlein und Prof. Dr. Anette-Gabriele Ziegler

Infections can increase diabetes risk in children

Viral respiratory infections during the first six months of life are associated with an increased risk for type 1 diabetes. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München during a study published in the…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Logo des DAAD: hellblaue Großbuchstaben DAAD auf weißem Grund

DAAD Promotes Muscle Research Project at the DDZ

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is promoting the cooperation of researchers between the German Diabetes Center (DDZ), a DZD partner, and the University of Oslo in Norway. During the next two years, professors of the DDZ and the University…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Dr. Carolin Daniel und Isabelle Serr nebeneinander stehend.

The Next Step in Preventing Diabetes

DZD scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with Technische Universität München, have shown in a preclinical model that specifically modified insulin mimetopes may lead to an immune tolerance. The results, published in ‘Nature…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Johannes Beckers, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin Hrabě de Angelis, Dr. Peter Huypens von links nebeneinander stehend.

DZD News,

You Are What Your Parents Ate!

DZD scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, in collaboration with researchers from Technical University of Munich, have shown that diet-induced obesity and diabetes can be epigenetically* inherited by the offspring via both the oocytes and the…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Logo der DDS

Eating Less Meat and White Bread Improves Metabolic Control in Diabetes

Dietary factors play an important role in the prevention of diabetes mellitus. While whole grain and fiber-rich foods, coffee, low-fat dairy products and green leafy vegetables protect against diabetes, an unbalanced diet increases the disease risk,…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Portrait von Prof. Dr. Andreas Birkenfeld

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DZD Experts at 2nd Middle German Diabetes Day

At the 2nd Middle German Diabetes Day (2. Mitteldeutscher Diabetestag) on Saturday, March 5th, scientists of the DZD will hold talks and answer questions by the attendees, who will include both the interested public and people with diabetes. The…

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Helmholtz Researchers Identify Genetic Switch Regulating Satiety and Body Weight

A team of researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technische Universität München and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) has identified a new mechanism that regulates the effect of the satiety hormone leptin. The study published in the…

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[Translate to Englisch:] Löffel mit Würfelzuckerstücken

All Sugars Are Not Alike: Isomaltulose Better Than Table Sugar for People with Type2 Diabetes

Like sucrose (table sugar), the natural disaccharide isomaltulose (PalatinoseTM) consists of glucose and fructose, but it is apparently more suitable for people with type 2 diabetes with regard to regulating blood glucose levels. This has now been…

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Height Influences Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer

Scientists at the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the Harvard School of Public Health describe the relationship of the worldwide increase in height with the development of leading chronic non-communicable diseases in the journal The…

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When Food Alters Gene Function

In a new study on mice reported in Diabetes, scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by Andreas Pfeiffer of the German Institute of Human Nutrition

(DIfE) showed that the maternal diet influences fat and glucose metabolism of…

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