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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Researchers at Kumamoto University have developed an efficient method to create pancreatic islet beta cells from embryonic stem cells, according to an article in Sunday?s edition of the British journal Nature Chemical Biology.
The team, including Shoen Kume, a professor in the university?s Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, produced the cells, which can secrete insulin, and succeeded in curing diabetic mice by transplanting the newly produced tissue into them.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...-pancreatic-islet-cells-success/#.UrBuFfRdWAg
The team, including Shoen Kume, a professor in the university?s Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, produced the cells, which can secrete insulin, and succeeded in curing diabetic mice by transplanting the newly produced tissue into them.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...-pancreatic-islet-cells-success/#.UrBuFfRdWAg