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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
DEVELOPMENT of the first stem-cell treatment for Type 1 diabetes has been sped up after animal trials indicate the technique could cure the life-threatening hormonal disorder.
Johnson & Johnson with biotech company ViaCyte have already begun testing it in a small number of diabetic patients.
If it works as well in humans as it has in animals, it would amount to a cure — ending the need for frequent insulin injections and blood sugar testing.
STEM CELL THERAPY
The therapy involves inducing embryonic stem cells in a lab dish to turn into insulin-producing cells, then putting them inside a small capsule that is implanted under the skin. The capsule protects the cells from the immune system, which otherwise would attack them as invaders — a roadblock that has stymied other research projects.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...s/news-story/485018bdf4ff3f853ea9396153d48f3e
Johnson & Johnson with biotech company ViaCyte have already begun testing it in a small number of diabetic patients.
If it works as well in humans as it has in animals, it would amount to a cure — ending the need for frequent insulin injections and blood sugar testing.
STEM CELL THERAPY
The therapy involves inducing embryonic stem cells in a lab dish to turn into insulin-producing cells, then putting them inside a small capsule that is implanted under the skin. The capsule protects the cells from the immune system, which otherwise would attack them as invaders — a roadblock that has stymied other research projects.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...s/news-story/485018bdf4ff3f853ea9396153d48f3e