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Researchers Look To The Sea For Latest Diabetes Treatment Daily Diabetic

Coffee, pig cells, lizard venom...perhaps you thought we'd reached the absolute limits in diabetes treatment. Apparently not, because researchers are now raving about...seaweed bubbles. No, really. From Health & Medical News:Encapsulating insulin producing cells in tiny seaweed bubbles and injecting them into people with type 1 diabetes could one day remove the need for daily insulin injections, an Australian researcher says. If the trial works, it will mean that insulin producing cells, or [...] Read More


The Latest In Diabetes Treatment: Micro Bubbles Daily Diabetic

You read that right: micro bubbles! In yet another potential breakthrough in diabetes research, scientists have successfully inserted insulin-producing genes into mice by enclosing the genes in teensy little bubbles. The genes were then 'freed' by breaking the bubbles with sound waves. What could this mean for diabetes in humans? The technique is less invasive than other strategies that require direct injections into the pancreas, the U.S. researchers note. The approach is [...] Read More


Latest in Diabetes Treatment: Cow Excrement Daily Diabetic

Okay, Gila monster venom was one thing. But cow dung and urine? Deepa Gurukula Yogashrama producing medicines using cow urine and dung is a ray of hope for patients suffering from cancer, diabetes, cardiac problems and skin diseases. Sri Narayana Bhat Swamiji is on a mission to promote local breeds and use cows derivatives to prepare 16 varieties of medicines for major diseases. He said that the first urination and dung [...] Read More


microcapsules from seaweed: offer novel method in juvenile diabetes treatment Straightfromthedoc

A novel treatment for juvenile diabetes (a method involving a product from seaweed) was first trialled in Australia on February 20 by University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers at the Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Services in Sydney. Patients of juvenile diabetes have to inject insulin on a daily basis to keep alive. Previously, some people with juvenile diabetes were transplanted with insulin-producing cells (called islets, isolated from [...] Read More


Understanding the Role of Protein GCN5: A Potential New Approach In Diabetes Treatment Straightfromthedoc

By manipulating the release of sugar by liver cells, Johns Hopkins scientists found a surprising and novel method of lowering sugar levels in mice, implying a treatment for conditions like diabetes. These findings have been published in the June issue of Cell Metabolism. Researchers from Hopkins' Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences and McKusick Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine discovered a protein called GCN5 that is critical for controlling a domino-like cascade [...] Read More