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A search of keyword diabetes did not produce a reference to this article. I also didn't find sciam.com on the list of prohibited cut and pastes, so I excerpted the article. If anyone knows if they're okay, please ping me and I will paste whole article to make it easier to read.

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The 50-year-old Faustman says her work also undermines an important rationale for a favored subject of diabetes research, embryonic stem cells. The hope has been to get these stem cells to turn into beta cells and thereby furnish an ample supply of the scarce tissue. The JDRF and many diabetes activists support re¬search on such stem cells,

I think this researcher broke to cardinal rules. First she threatened to cure the disease that laid the golden egg and put the LDRF people out of jobs. Second she was pursuing a cure that was not the on politically correct path.