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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A cure for Type 1 diabetes is a step closer after scientists managed to halt the condition for six months thanks to insulin-producing cells.
Experts from US hospitals and institutions including Harvard University managed to transplant cells into mice, which immediately began producing insulin.
The team was also able to show they could prevent the cells being rendered useless by the body’s own immune system, which was effectively “switched off” thanks to scientific work.
Scientists are now working to replicate the results in people with the condition.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/cure-type-1-diabetes-step-7244340
Experts from US hospitals and institutions including Harvard University managed to transplant cells into mice, which immediately began producing insulin.
The team was also able to show they could prevent the cells being rendered useless by the body’s own immune system, which was effectively “switched off” thanks to scientific work.
Scientists are now working to replicate the results in people with the condition.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/cure-type-1-diabetes-step-7244340
