Scientists reprogram skin cells into insulin-produ
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Posted On: 02/06/2014 5:34:48 PM
Scientists reprogram skin cells into insulin-producing pancreas cells
Date:
February 6, 2014
Source:
Gladstone Institutes
Summary:
A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what must be done -- but because the tools did not exist to do it. But now scientists, harnessing the power of regenerative medicine, have developed a technique in animal models that could replenish the very cells destroyed by the disease.
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