A news story today, UT Southwestern doctor reports 'intriguing' diabetes breakthrough, is indeed intriguing. A research team used high levels of leptin, a substance naturally produced by fat cells, to somehow reverse the otherwise fatal effects of diabetes in rodents.
Leptin, as you may or may not know, is a hormone. It gets very little respect -- it doesn't even have its own website (although a drug company owns the domain name leptin.com, there's nothing there). It's a protein hormone,...
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Reprinted with permission from Amy Tenderich of www.diabetesmine.com. As an alternative to transplanting islets into the liver, which has... Read more »
Researchers have been able to make insulin-producing cells from skin cells, leading to hope that it may one day be a viable option for people who... Read more »
Scientists at Harvard University say they've found a way to change existing pancreatic cells into the type of cells that produce insulin. This novel... Read more »
Researchers say they've come another step closer to helping diabetics be able to regenerate their own insulin-producing cells. They discovered that a... Read more »
MINNEAPOLIS (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- People with type 1 diabetes must rely on taking insulin shots every day just to survive. A procedure called... Read more »
A new study found that 20 out of 23 Type 1 diabetics who were given stem cell transplants did not need to take insulin for two to four years. The... Read more »
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