Daniel Ferguson & Sandip Mukherjee on Metabolic Dysfunction & Extracellular Vesicles, Subhasmita Rout & Ran Hee Choi on Female Resistance to Semaglutide Muscle Loss, plus a childhood obesity edition of "Sweet Talk"

Welcome to the September 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 September 2026 issue of Diabetes.

9:55 First, Kirk welcomes Daniel Ferguson, PhD, and Sandip Mukherjee, PhD, both of the Division of Nutrition Science and Obesity at Washington University in St. Louis. Their article, "Adipose Tissue Overexpression of Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase Prevents Metabolic Dysfunction in Obese Mice via Extracellular Vesicles", is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0914.

37:55 Next, our hosts speak with Subhasmita Rout, doctoral student, and Ran Hee Choi, both of the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at the University of Utah College of Health. Their article, "Females Are Completely Resistant to Semaglutide-Induced Muscle Loss in ob/ob Mice", is available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db26-0229.

1:03:35 In honor of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, the latest "Sweet Talk" features three guests who speak to the infrastructure needed to advance the study, care, and treatment of those living with obesity and diabetes. Anthony Ferrante, MD, PhD, is co-director of the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Columbia University, Darrell Neufer, PhD, directs the North Carolina Diabetes Research Center at East Carolina University, and Theresa Strong, PhD, is Director of Research Programs at the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research.

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