Diabetic Skin Cells Morphed Into Beta Cells (They’re Human!)
{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…