Scientists report potential diabetes breakthrough

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29 Aug 2008

A scientific breakthrough which could have implications for the treatment of diabetes has been made, researchers from Harvard Stem Cell Institute in the USA have stated.

Professor Doug Melton and Dr Qiao Zhou report having turned one type of fully-formed adult cell into another, which could have uses in the treatment of the condition.

By introducing genes into a cell with a virus, the team state they have been able to turn exocrine cells in mice, which make up around 95 per cent of the pancreas, into insulin-producing beta cells.

The beta cells make up around one per cent of the pancreas and are the ones which die off in type 1 diabetes.

A number of institutions, including the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, have welcomed the results of the study.

Published in the journal Nature, the research is identified by the staff as a major step forward in developing a treatment for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the Telegraph notes.

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