A cure for diabetes may be developed soon. For more details see the Nature Communications paper on using human skin derived pancreatic cells to protect mice from chemically induced diabetes.
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University of California, San Francisco scientists have found a found a way of turning skin cells into healthy pancreatic cells, which could replace those damaged
The U.S. research capitalises on a technique that allows scientists to use a cocktail of vitamins, genes and other compounds to turn one type of cell into another.
The researchers, from the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco, found the right recipe to turn human skin cells into healthy, fully-functional versions of the pancreatic beta cells that are damaged in diabetes.
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