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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Researchers may have found a way to retrain cells in diabetics to create needed insulin—what could be a breakthrough in diabetes therapy. NY1's Erin Billups filed the following report.
The immune system destroys the insulin producing cells in type one diabetics, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center say it's possible to teach gastrointestinal cells to make insulin by turning off a certain gene.
"We found that when that gene is inactive, cells that normally make the hormone called serotonin turn into cells that make insulin," says Columbia University Medical Center Diabetes Researcher Dr. Domenico Accili.
That gene is called FOX-O-1.
http://www.ny1.com/content/lifestyl...-possible-breakthrough-in-diabetes-treatment/
The immune system destroys the insulin producing cells in type one diabetics, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center say it's possible to teach gastrointestinal cells to make insulin by turning off a certain gene.
"We found that when that gene is inactive, cells that normally make the hormone called serotonin turn into cells that make insulin," says Columbia University Medical Center Diabetes Researcher Dr. Domenico Accili.
That gene is called FOX-O-1.
http://www.ny1.com/content/lifestyl...-possible-breakthrough-in-diabetes-treatment/