Thread: Insulin Goes Viral? New study shows some viruses produce insulin-like hormones that have potential to cause disease

"Experimenting in mouse and human cells, the scientists studied whether the VILPs could act like hormones. Their experiments proved that the VILPs could indeed bind to human insulin receptors and receptors for a closely related hormone called IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1)."

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/insulin-goes-viral