Scientists Step Closer To Helping Diabetics Regenerate Insulin Making Cells
Scientists Step Closer To Helping Diabetics Regenerate Insulin Making Cells
US scientists have come a step closer to finding a way to help treat people with diabetes by reactivating their own insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, although they acknowledge that this goal is still a long way off. They discovered a hitherto unknown role for a well known protein: it helps immature endocrine systems generate new pancreatic islet cells, which include the insulin-producing beta cells.