Scientists reprogram skin cells into insulin-producing pancreas cells
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
A cure for type 1 diabetes has long eluded even the top experts. Not because they do not know what must be done -- but because the tools did not exist to do it. But now scientists, harnessing the power of regenerative medicine, have developed a technique in animal models that could replenish the very cells destroyed by the disease.