Diabetes: New drug target that stimulates beta cell growth identified

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

One of the holy grails in diabetes research is to discover molecules that stimulate beta cell growth and to find drugs that target these molecules. Now researchers have done both, discovering not only a protein that regulates beta cell growth, but also a chemical compound that stimulates it.

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