Scientists Step Closer To Helping Diabetics Regenerate
Insulin Making Cells:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157307.php

US scientists have come a step closer to finding a way to
help treat people with diabetes by reactivating their own
insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, although they
acknowledge that this goal is still a long way off. They
discovered a hitherto unknown role for a well known protein:
it helps immature endocrine systems generate new pancreatic
islet cells, which include the insulin-producing beta cells.

The study, which was done on mice, was the work of
senior author Dr Doris Stoffers, Associate Professor of
Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Philadelphia, and colleagues, and is published in the July
issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

"The protein, Pdx1, is a pivotal molecule in the regulation
of beta-cell development and we hope this type of information
could help in efforts to generate beta-cell replacements for
the treatment of diabetes."

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Sounds like an effective treatment for type 1, but not an
effective treatment for the insulin resistance part of type 2.
Could offer a substitute for the insulin injections often
used in later stages of type 2, though.

Robert Miles