Scientists Increasingly Hopeful Of Diabetes Cure

Filed in archive Research on August 30, 2006

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?