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kickaha ([personal profile] kickaha) wrote2006-12-16 11:06 pm

Leaping Langerhans!

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.