In Theory: Under Stress, Insulin-Making Cells Revert to Nascent State

Monday, October 1, 2012 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

In Type 2 diabetics, the pancreas’s beta cells work harder to produce insulin, and it was believed they eventually died. Now research in mice suggests they may be reverting to a precursor state.

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