Understanding the Pancreas and Its Role The pancreas is a triangular, elongated gland made up of three main parts: the head, the body, and the tail. You’ll find it tucked behind your stomach—almost ...

Fatty Pancreas Disorder occurs when excess fat builds up in the pancreas, impairing insulin production and raising diabetes ...

A new pancreatic cancer vaccine produced lasting immune responses, raising hopes of stopping the disease before it starts.

The new blood test detected 90% of early pancreatic cancers, vastly outperforming the standard tumor marker test.

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Yin et al 12 present the early phase development and validation of a fragmentomics-based biomarker for the earlier detection of pancreatic cancer. While ...

Insulin is a hormone that decreases blood glucose levels. The only cells that produce insulin are pancreatic beta cells (β-cells), and a decrease in these cells is a major cause of diabetes. Although ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Skip Viragh Center for Pancreatic Cancer report that an ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The pancreas is one of those organs that we neither think much about nor really know exactly what it does ...

Even before a tumor in the pancreas becomes discernible, an activated cancer gene actively remodels its future environment and creates an inflammatory and immune-defensive microenvironment in which ...

The negative health effects of cigarettes are well known, but many people don’t realize the significant link between pancreatic cancer and smoking. Smoking cigarettes can have a negative impact on ...

Healthcare professionals classify pancreatic cancer into stages 0 to 4 depending on tumor size and spread to lymph nodes and other organs. The stage helps doctors decide the best treatment. Pancreatic ...

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) can deliver their cargoes to the liver, lung and spleen, but targeting them to other organs is more challenging. Reporting in Nature, Lei et al. design LNPs that accumulate ...