Regenerating Insulin with Pancreatic Stem Cells
March 5, 2024 | Terry Sharrer
“[Researchers at the] Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute [Melbourne, Australia] have demonstrated in a Nature scientific journal that newly made insulin cells can respond to glucose and produce insulin following stimulation with two US Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs in as little as 48 hours. . . . . The novel therapeutic approach holds the potential to become the first disease modifying treatment for type 1 diabetes by facilitating glucose responsive insulin production by harnessing the patient’s remaining pancreatic cells, thereby enabling people living with diabetes to potentially achieve independence from round-the-clock insulin injections.” MORE
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