Welcome to the February 2026 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 February 2026 issue of Diabetes.

6:10 To discuss this issue's Paper of the Month, our hosts are joined by authors Christopher Wilson, PhD and Daniel J. Moore, MD, PhD, both of Vanderbilt University. Their article, "B Lymphocytes Impede Tregs to Erode Islet Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes," is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0241.

37:05 Next, Darleen speaks with Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD. Dr. Mittendorfer is Senior Associate Dean for Research and Director of NextGen Precision Health, Clinical and Translational Science Unit at the University of Missouri and the lead author of "Effects of Marked Weight Loss Induced by Gastric Bypass Surgery or Low-Calorie Diet Alone on Postprandial Glucose Disposal in Type 2 Diabetes," available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0737.

56:00 In the latest edition of "Sweet Talk," Kevin introduces Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, a clinical scientist at the University of Cambridge and past recipient of the American Diabetes Association's Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement. They discuss O'Rahilly's career, which reshaped scientists' understanding of metabolism and metabolic disease.

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Welcome to the January 2026 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 January 2026 issue of Diabetes.

17:40 After sharing their predictions for the new year, our hosts are joined by Masaya Oshima, PhD, a contract researcher at Institut Cochin in Paris, France. He is the lead author on the January Paper of the Month, "Killing of Human β-Cells by CD8+ T Cells Triggers Inflammatory Paracrine Signaling and Neighboring β-Cell Dysfunction," available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0473.

33:10 In the latest edition of "Sweet Talk," Kevin speaks with Sarah Stanley, MBBCh, PhD, an associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and recipient of the American Diabetes Association's Pathway to Stop Diabetes Award. Her article, "Neural Regulation of Blood Glucose in Acute Stress: A Report on Research Supported by Pathway to Stop Diabetes," is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/dbi24-0051

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Welcome to the December 2025 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 December 2025 issue of Diabetes.

13:10 After discussing their favorite interviews of the past two years, our hosts are joined by Bryan Bergman, PhD, a professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is the corresponding author of "Combined Weight Loss and Exercise Training Alters Skeletal Muscle Subcellular Lipid Localization and Intermuscular Adipose Tissue Cellular Composition," a featured article in this month's issue. The article is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0492.

35:25 To discuss the latest Paper of the Month, our hosts are joined by authors Kathryn Walters, PhD, postdoctoral researcher at CU Anschutz, Roberto Castro-Gutierrez, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California San Francisco, Neelanjan Mukherjee, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the CU Anschutz, and Holger Russ, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Florida. Their article, "Proteogenomic Discovery of Novel Open Reading Frames With HLA Immune Presentation on Human β-Cells," is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db24-0527.

1:00:50 In the latest edition of "Sweet Talk," Kevin and Kirk explore how new technologies shape the ways we assess metabolism. They are joined by Alexander Banks, PhD, Director of the Energy Balance core facility at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard Medical School, Corey Holman, PhD, Technical Director of the Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core at the University of Pennsylvania, and Louise Lantier, PhD, Metabolic Pathophysiology Core Managing Director at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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