Diabetes research news (and anything involving lab mice) can sometimes make our eyes gloss over, as it seems we’re hearing about some new scientific “breakthrough” every other day.
But we took a little more interest recently when hearing about a new line of D-research that seems to have a Star Trek spin to it!
Yup, apparently this research is exploring how our insulin-producing cells basically put on a Romulan cloaking device to hide from diabetes!…
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By
AmyT on
February 27, 2012
The famous and controversial diabetes cure researcher Dr. Denise Faustman has just published exciting new research results showing evidence that “insulin production may persist for decades after the onset of type 1 diabetes” and “beta cell functioning also appears to be preserved in some patients years after apparent loss of pancreatic function.” Her study results appears in the March issue of the journal Diabetes Care.
“The traditional concept is that in type 1 diabetes, the…
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By
AmyT on
September 4, 2009
{Editor’s Note: apparently I’m all over Time magazine this week, or it’s all over me…}
Finally, some breakthrough diabetes research that does not only involve mice! Time magazine’s August 31 issue reports on new a stem-cell-based study that involved taking skin cells from two people with type 1 diabetes, exposing the cells to “a cocktail of three genes that converted them back to an embryonic state,” and then “instructing” the cells to grow into beta…
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AmyT on
February 27, 2007
Meet Alberto Pugliese, M.D., a Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Head of the Immunogenetics Program at the Diabetes Research Institute in Miami, FL. He was scheduled to host a chat on “Reversing Autoimmunity” on the DiabetesTalkFest site on Feb. 8, but some technical difficulties prevented him from logging on. So he was kind enough to talk with us all via the DiabetesMine.com community here.
Since joining the DRI in 1994, Dr.…
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