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May 26, 2007
Curing Diabetes with Stem Cells?
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have revealed a fundamental break-through that may help cure Type 1 Diabetes. The medical technology, based upon adult stem cell research, enables people to grown their own insulin-producing cells, which could be used to repair the diseased pancreas.
The findings were announced in the June 2007 medical journal Cell Proliferation in a paper titled "the first demonstration that human umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells can be engineered" to synthesize insulin.
I note that the method is not based upon the destruction of embryos and is therefore not subject to the same moral scrutinity that ESC suffers. In addition, it looks like these results are extremely promising.
Posted by Diabetologica at May 26, 2007 7:43 PM