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- Type of diabetes
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Potential diabetes cure
A breakthrough transplant technique in mice suggests there may finally be a cure for diabetes on the horizon. Using stem cells made from the animal’s own blood to avoid rejection, Canadian scientists were able to give diabetic mice new insulin-producing cells and reverse both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, effectively curing the disease. Fundraising is now underway to bring the research to the human trial stage, and eventually make it available to the roughly 422 million people with diabetes around the world.
A breakthrough transplant technique in mice suggests there may finally be a cure for diabetes on the horizon. Using stem cells made from the animal’s own blood to avoid rejection, Canadian scientists were able to give diabetic mice new insulin-producing cells and reverse both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, effectively curing the disease. Fundraising is now underway to bring the research to the human trial stage, and eventually make it available to the roughly 422 million people with diabetes around the world.