As a person with Type 1 diabetes, whose life is all wrapped up in helping others with this incurable illness, it’s hard to express the relief and yes — joy — that I feel knowing that researchers hands will finally be untied by Obama today to freely explore the enormous possibilities of stem cell research!
Fortunately for me, another journalist living with Type 1 named Mike Littwin at the Denver Post has just done an…
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A Canadian company called EnGene Inc. claims to have developed an innovative genetic approach to potentially overcoming diabetes. I’m using the term “overcoming” because what EnGene is working on is not a cure per se, but a pretty cool workaround.
Here’s the deal:
As you all know, insulin is produced in the human body by beta cells in the pancreas. In the case of Type 1 diabetes, the immune system’s T-cells destroy the beta cells…
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AmyT on
April 11, 2007
Man, there’s been an amazing amount of buzz and excitement over new stem cell research out of Brazil that may “rein in Type 1 diabetes.” By injecting 15 patients with their own stem cells, researchers were able to get these people off insulin entirely without any major negative side effects — so far.
Luminaries are quoted as saying that this exciting new treatment “is a big deal,” but the follow-up section in the LA Times…
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Well, he did it. He said he would, and he did. Last night my husband and I were watching the BBC World News coverage, the anchors analyzing why he had to do it in order to keep 50+ percent of his conservative backers happy. They also said the issue will divide the US Republican party. Then they got to talking about the merits of stem cell research. The word “diabetes” got thrown around a lot.…
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