Joslin researchers identify new source of insulin-producing cells

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Centre 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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