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April 26, 2005
Brain Stem Cells Coaxed to Produce Insulin
Topics: Medicine- Forbes.com
Researchers have found a way to transform neural stem cells into
insulin-producing cells -- a discovery that could one day lead to a
possible cure for the blood sugar disease diabetes.
That's the claim of a study published in the April 26 issue of PLoS Medicine.
The idea is to use these transformed cells to replace lost insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas.
In research with neural stem cells in a lab dish, Stanford University researchers developed a specific combination of chemicals that prompted the neural stem cells to mature into insulin-producing cells. They ended up with cells that produced insulin and released it in response to sugar.
Posted by Hyscience at April 26, 2005 11:49 AM
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