New discovery could protect diabetics from hypoglycemia

New discovery could protect diabetics from hypoglycemia

For years, scientists have focused their attention on the pancreas’ insulin-producing beta cells and left small clusters of cells in the same region in the background. But a new paper uncovers that the less prominent delta cells—hitherto believed to be mere standbys—have a major function in protecting you from dangerous plunges in blood sugar. Their regulation of how insulin flows out of the pancreas could be responsible for the instability of b…