Type 1 diabetes cured in dogs

[sal paradise]

Interesting piece here on how researchers at the University of Barcelona have cured diabetes in our canine friends with a single session of gene therapy.
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/type_1_diabetes_cured_dogs-103093

Should always be sceptical about claims like this but it looks interesting.

Hello, by the way.

 

[Northerner]

Hi Sal, welcome to the forum 🙂 Have you been diagnosed long?

 

[Austin Mini]

Thats very interesting and almost full circle. Dogs were used to test insulin when it was first discovered.
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/insulin/discovery-insulin.html

 

[trophywench]

I know Austen. I'm really really glad they did that way back when - but feel very sorry for the poor dogs that had to die because of it. It can't have been a happy death, can it? Not if dogs feel as bad as we do ..... But I'm eternally grateful to them. And of course. B,B and M.

And won't sign anything about banning medical experimentation on animals willy nilly across the board, simply because of it.

I say to people waving stuff in my face, if it hadn't been for dogs dying, I most likely wouldn't be alive now and you and I couldn't be having this conversation.