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Insulin-Producing Cells Made from Adult Skin Cells

Posted: Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Using skin cells from people with Type 1 diabetes, researchers were able to produce cells that made insulin in response to changing blood sugar levels.

Islet Transplants Provide Lasting Metabolic Control

Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2009

French researchers report, that with good graft function, islet transplantation can achieve long-term metabolic control in patients with brittle Type 1 diabetes.

Researchers Implant Pig Cells in Type 1 Diabetics

Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A New Zealand biotech company began a trial last week that implanted cells from newborn pigs into eight human volunteers as an experimental treatment for their diabetes and the participants will not use immunosuppressant drugs.

Discovery of Genetic Switch Finds a Possible Cure for Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Scientists have identified a master regulator gene for early embryonic development of the pancreas and other organs, putting researchers closer to coaxing stem cells into pancreatic cells as a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes.

A Step Closer to Regenerating Beta Cells

Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

US scientists have come a step closer to finding a way to help treat people with diabetes by reactivating their own insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. They discovered a hitherto unknown role for a well known protein: it helps immature endocrine systems generate new pancreatic islet cells, which include the insulin-producing beta cells.

Rotavirus Might Accelerate Type 1 Diabetes Development

Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2008

A recent study out of Australia has found a connection between the common childhood infection, rotavirus, and the onset and progression of type 1 diabetes.

Insulin Producing Cells Shown to Regenerate

Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008

An in vitro (controlled lab environment) experiment has recently concluded that insulin producing pancreatic beta-cells have the ability to regenerate themselves. This could greatly enhance the medical field's understanding of diabetes.

AACE: Experimental Diabetes Treatment Shows Promise

Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008

New research monitoring the effects of islet cell transplantation resulted in near-normal metabolic control and decreased hypoglycemia.

New Stem Cell Therapies to Treat Diabetes Proposed

Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Stem cell therapies have shown tremendous promise with numerous diseases (heart disease, Alzheimer's, etc...), but to date, diabetes has not been the most appropriate diseases for this form of treatment. Japanese researchers have recently tried to change this trend, making progressive proposals of how to utilize stem cells for diabetes.

The Solution for Diabetes? Pig Islet Cells

Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Transplantation of insulin-producing islet cells from human donors or cadavers, an investigational approach to long-term diabetes treatment, is fraught with difficulties. San Diego-based MicroIslet, Inc. believes that transplantation of encapsulated islets from pigs may be the answer.