--- title: Five Best: There May Be Five Types of Diabetes description: There may be five types of diabetes, would you live forever and more. canonical: https://time.com/5185901/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-05T17:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:02.157Z article:section: Ideas og:title: There May Be Five Types of Diabetes og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5185901/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There May Be Five Types of Diabetes twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # There May Be Five Types of Diabetes by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 5, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 5, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**There may be five types of diabetes.**](https://qz.com/1220918/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes-according-to-a-new-lancet-study/) By Lial MacLellan in _Quartz_ **2\.** [**If you could live forever, would you?**](http://quillette.com/2018/03/02/would-you-opt-for-immortality/) By Michael Shermer in _Quillette_ **3\.** [**Could America have stopped the genocide in Myanmar?**](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/04/obama-rohingya-genocide-myanmar-burma-muslim-syu-kii-217214) By Nahal Toosi in _Politico Magazine_ **4\.** [**Getting rid of saline in those ubiquitous IV bags could save thousands of lives.**](https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/health/saline-iv-fluids-study/index.html) By Michael Nedelman at _CNN_ **5\.** [**This breakthrough could unlock new treatments for depression.**](https://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2018/stress%5Fdepression.html) By the _Scripps Research Institute_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5185901/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5185901/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes/"},"headline":"There May Be Five Types of Diabetes","datePublished":"2018-03-05T17:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:02.157Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5185901/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Depression","Innovation","health","diabetes","myanmar"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5185901/there-may-be-five-types-of-diabetes/","name":"There May Be Five Types of Diabetes"}}]}] ```