Researchers identify new source of insulin-producing cells
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 17:35
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells can form after birth or after injury from progenitor cells within the pancreas that were not beta cells, a finding that contradicts a widely-cited earlier study that had concluded this is not possible.
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