Exploration of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases (eISSN 2998-2456) is a new open access journal. This Journal, at this moment free of charge, aims to provide an open forum for both basic and clinical topics in the field. Few areas in Biomedicine have seen such a dramatic development in recent years as the field of Endocrinology and Metabolism. In the mean time more than half a billion people in the world suffer from diabetes and metabolic disease, which constitutes a major challenge for our health care systems. ...