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Pig to primate transplants show promise for diabetes

Thread starter Northerner
Start date Nov 9, 2011

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Nov 9, 2011

Scientists exploring a potential cure for diabetes have shown that transplanting insulin-producing cells from embryonic pigs into diabetic monkeys can dramatically lower blood sugar levels, though not quite to normal levels.

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22944.aspx

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Pig to primate transplants show promise for diabetes

Northerner

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