Cancer and diabetes: One discovery is affecting two areas of research
Friday, April 30, 2010 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
Killing two birds with one stone. Sometimes, research results open up unexpected possibilities. This was what happened in the experiments of Chang Xian Zhang, a senior research scientist at Inserm, and his collaborators in the Laboratoire Géeetique Moleculaire, Signalisation et Cancer (CNRS, France). Their recent work on pancreatic endocrine tumours is also proving beneficial to research on the development of diabetes treatments. The results were published today in the May 2010 issue of the journal Gastroenterology.