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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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AmyT on
November 16, 2006
Catchy title, ay? This is what they chose to dub the set of cutting-edge diabetes research presentations at last month’s NYC Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) meeting.
If you like to keep up on the latest and greatest advancements, this is certainly some stuff you should know about. Of particular interest:
* Preserving Beta Cells – Jay Skyler, NIH Study Chairman and past ADA President
Remember, it’s the so-called “regulatory t-cells” that keep the autoreactive (self-attacking)…
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