Jose Ortiz and Teresa Ku on trefoil factor 2 expression by pancreatic acinar cells, Adrian Vella on the effect of diabetes-associated variation in TCF7L2 on islet function, Matthew Webber on being a Pathway to Stop Diabetes awardee, and more!

Welcome to the September 2024 episode of DiabetesBio—the American Diabetes Association's podcast for its flagship research publication, Diabetes. In this episode of DiabetesBio, Drs. Kirk Habegger, Darleen Sandoval, and Kevin Williams discuss the latest and greatest content in the September 2024 issue of Diabetes and interview a Pathway to Stop Diabetes award winner.  4:20: Darleen and Kirk are joined by Jose A. Ortiz and Hsun Teresa Ku, first and last authors of "Trefoil Factor 2 Expressed by the Murine Pancreatic Acinar Cells Is Required for the Development of Islets and for β-Cell Function During Aging." This article is an editor-selected feature article and is freely accessible at https://doi.org/10.2337/db23-0490.  25:07: Kirk and Darleen talk to Adrian Vella, last author of "The Longitudinal Effect of Diabetes-Associated Variation in TCF7L2 on Islet Function in Humans." This article is also an editor-selected feature article and is freely accessible at https://doi.org/10.2337/db24-0192.  50:21: In this month's Sweet Talk segment, Kevin chats with Matthew J. Webber, a 2019 Pathway to Stop Diabetes Accelerator Award winner, about his research on materials that can sense and respond to changing glucose.  To learn more about Diabetes and DiabetesBio, please visit diabetesjournals.org/diabetes. Thank you for listening, and don't forget to smash that "follow" button!