Blog Posts focused on: Type 1 Diabetes (T1D); Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet
December 14, 2021
Inside the Sound Life Project: How BRI is Studying Health to Understand Disease
BRI’s vision is to create a healthy immune system for everyone. But before we can do that, we need to answer a key question: What exactly does a healthy immune system look like?
November 3, 2021
Back to School With Type 1 Diabetes
The transition from elementary school to middle school is a big step for any kid. Multiple teachers instead of one, new letter grades, no recess. It’s a different world, especially when most of fifth grade took place at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 26, 2021
Meet Penny: A Goldendoodle Helping Her Teen Manage T1D
When Grace Pilo is in a ballet performance, she uses a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump to make sure her blood sugar stays in a healthy range throughout the show.
September 28, 2021
Joining Research to Target T1D at the Source
It was the dead of the night in Brisbane, Australia. Maree Doolan, then a nurse, was in the middle of a long shift. “We were messing around and decided to take our blood sugars,” she says. “I was shocked that mine was quite high, in the 280 range.
August 31, 2021
Beyond Insulin: Beyond BRI's Quest to Stop Type 1 Diabetes
The discovery of insulin 100 years ago transformed type 1 diabetes (T1D) from a death sentence to a chronic illness. Yet T1D is still a relentless disease with no cure.
July 27, 2021
Hiking and Backpacking with Type 1 Diabetes: Tips and Stories from A Washington Hiker
After six miles and several hours of hiking in the heat of the day, Andrea Williams reached her destination: A view of Mount Rainier so close and clear that she couldn’t even fit the whole mountain in a photo. Then she checked her blood sugar.
July 15, 2021
Immunowhat? Making Sense of What It Means to be Immunocompromised
Words like “immunocompromised” are broad by design: They’re meant to encompass how a wide variety of conditions impact the immune system.
June 15, 2021
New Drug Aims to Retrain the Immune System in T1D
What if doctors could treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) by teaching the immune system to stop attacking cells in the pancreas? BRI researchers are working with the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and global research consortium T1D TrialNet, testing a new approach that aims to do just that.
April 22, 2021
“Cure Diabetes, That’s The Dream”: Inside One Scientist’s Quest to End T1D
Before BRI Lab Aide Noah Biru had degrees in engineering and biochemistry — and was headed to Yale to pursue a PhD in immunology — he was a little kid who wanted to help his mom.
February 12, 2021
Type 1 Diabetes Valentines
Raising a child with type 1 diabetes takes patience. Blood sugars rise and fall unpredictably, affecting nearly every aspect of daily life. It takes attention to detail.
