An enlarged pancreas may mean nothing. You may simply have a pancreas that is larger than normal. Or, it can be a result of fat accumulation around the pancreas or an anatomic abnormality.

"This transition state is probably a normal way that the pancreas protects itself from the corrosive impact of inflammation and other stressors," says Cahan. Feinberg speculates that further ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic "marks" in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal cells ...

Specifically, in diabetes, depending on the stage and type of the disease, the pancreas is generally nonfunctional and fails to release a necessary regulatory hormone, insulin. In a normal ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a pattern of so-called epigenetic “marks” in a transition state between normal and pancreatic cancer cells in mice, and that the normal ...