diabetics
Scientists Increasingly Hopeful Of Diabetes Cure
Filed in archive Research by Rhys on August 30, 2006
Scientists Increasingly Hopeful Of Diabetes Cure
Here is another fascinating article on the way pig cells are being transplanted into rats to cure both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Although 'primate' and 'human' trials are still years away, scientists are hopeful that this may be the big one: a cure for diabetes.

Washington University researchers have developed a potential cure for Type 2 diabetes.

The treatment has already cured rats, and it could eventually mean a second chance at health for the almost 200 million people worldwide with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.

The researchers took tissues from pigs - tissues that would have become pancreases - and implanted them into rats. The tissues helped control blood sugar, Curing the rats' diabetes for life.


Would you be willing to try this treatment?

Permalink: Scientists Increasingly Hopeful Of Diabetes Cure
Tags: diabetes+cure  diabetes  cure  type  hopeful  hopeful+diabetes  increasingly+hopeful 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/36454
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Scientists Increasingly Hopeful Of Diabetes Cure:

  • Currently 8.00/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 8.00 out of 2 vote(s) cast.
Subscribe
Share It
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!