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From using beta cell therapy to finding ways to help cells survive, to how weight stigma is linked to poorer health in people with diabetes, here are some of the diabetes research developments announced in January 2026.

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01.02.2022

Duke Al Durham: Bittersweet: The hypers and hypos of living with type 1

Duke Al Durham is a rapper and poet living in Cardiff. He shares his view with us here about how his poet...

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31.01.2022

Tyne Valley friends to start a type 1 diabetes peer support group

Diane Macfaden and Jane White, who between them have lived with type 1 diabetes for more than 100 years, ...

31.01.2022

Our Chief Executive calls for NHS soups and shakes programme for whole UK

Low-calorie diets have the potential to help people with type 2 diabetes to put their diabetes into remis...

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26.01.2022

'Express Your Diabetes' on Children and Type 1 Diabetes Day

Diabetes UK Cymru is marking Children and Type 1 Diabetes Day on 3 February with a challenge to 'Express ...

25.01.2022

Genes can protect some people from type 2 diabetes

A new study from our researchers has discovered that genes which control where our body fat is stored pla...

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18.01.2022

Our Future Health may hold the key to huge health discoveries

The UK’s largest-ever health research programme, called Our Future Health, aims to recruit up to five mil...

12.01.2022

Shelby celebrates 100 years of insulin

Shelby Sangha, 22, lives in Wolverhampton and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in May 2016 while studyi...

11.01.2022

Diabetes Discoveries: past

Before insulin was discovered in 1921, it was exceptional for people with type 1 diabetes to live for lon...

11.01.2022

We invested over £6.6 million into new diabetes research in 2021

Your donations allowed us to get 30 innovative new diabetes research projects off the ground in 2021. Our...

10.01.2022

Her Majesty the Queen welcomes 100 year anniversary of insulin treatment

Her Majesty The Queen, our Patron, has written to us to extend her good wishes to all those living with d...

06.01.2022

Reducing the risk of suicide in people with diabetes

Suicide and diabetes isn't something that's generally talked about. But we should be talking about it, sa...

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05.01.2022

Liver fat directly raises risk of type 2 diabetes

Our research has revealed that having higher levels of fat in the liver, and having a smaller pancreas, d...

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04.01.2022

Lesley: A Day in the Life of a Diabetes Consultant Nurse

A professional view: Lesley Mills is a Diabetes Consultant Nurse in Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospit...

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04.01.2022

Hormonal condition MACS linked to type 2 diabetes

Research we've funded has shown for the first time the scale and impact of MACS, a hormonal condition, th...

17.12.2021

Our research brings us closer to new hypo treatments

Our researchers have found a way to activate a fuel gauge in the brain that could help in the development...

14.12.2021

Diabetes care during the booster roll-out

You might have seen in the news that access to health services is going to be further reduced over the co...