Leaping Langerhans!
Dec. 16th, 2006 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=a042812e-492c-4f07-8245-8a598ab5d1bf&k=63970&p=1
Wow. As someone with diabetes in the family, and more than a few friends with the disease, this is... promising.
Recap: Toronto researchers have done solid work towards establishing diabetes as a neurological, not an immunological, disease, and have developed a simple injection (directly into the pancreas) that completely eliminates Type 1 diabetes in mice for up to four months, one injection.
Wow.
Wow. As someone with diabetes in the family, and more than a few friends with the disease, this is... promising.
Recap: Toronto researchers have done solid work towards establishing diabetes as a neurological, not an immunological, disease, and have developed a simple injection (directly into the pancreas) that completely eliminates Type 1 diabetes in mice for up to four months, one injection.
Wow.