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Measuring Minute Amounts Of Insulin Aids Diabetes Treatment

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

A new method that uses nanotechnology to rapidly measure minute amounts of insulin is a major step toward developing the ability to assess the health of the body's insulin-producing cells in real time.

Stem Cells Found In Menstrual Blood

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Regenerative stem cell therapies are known to be a revolutionary treatment for the future, but the currently most abundant source of stem cells (embryonic) comes with a lot of controversy. Researchers may have found a much less controversial and more abundant alternative as a source for stem cells, menstrual blood.

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.

Genetically Altered Pig Passes Trait Onto Offspring

Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2008

In 2006, pig embryos were injected with a green fluorescent protein, and three pigs were born with glowing green snouts, tongues and trotters under ultraviolet light. This was a major accomplishment in the field of genetic research, and recently the success has been furthered by one of the three fluorescent pigs passing on the trait to two of her piglets.

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.

Living Donors The Best Source Of Islets For Diabetes Treatment

Posted: Thursday, December 06, 2007

Obtaining islet cells from living donors may be a solution to the shortage of islets available for transplantation.

Transplant Key to A Diabetes Cure, Just Days Away

Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Melbourne scientists claim they are just days from conducting a pioneering therapy that will effectively cure Type-1 diabetes.

Cross-species Transplant A Step Toward Diabetes Cure For Humans

Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007

With an eye on curing diabetes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells destined to produce insulin into diabetic macaque monkeys -- all without the need for risky immune suppression drugs that prevent rejection.

Researchers Develop Successful Insulin-Cell Transplants for Type 1 Diabetics

Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a way to overcome a major stumbling block to developing successful insulin-cell transplants for people with type I diabetes.

First Use of Cord Blood to Alter Course of Type 1 Diabetes

Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2007

Yields Insights for Developing Future Cocktail to Treat the Disease.
Transfusion of the person's own cord blood into newly diagnosed Type 1's, reduced the severity of their diabetes.