Posted on 02/29/2020 3:12:14 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Diabetes is a disease that has a huge impact on peoples’ lives.
So far the disease, which is thought to affect over 400 million people worldwide, is understood to be incurable. But researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis have just proved that it is possible to cure diabetes in mice in just a couple of weeks.
IFL Science’s Alfredo Carpineti reports that the researchers used human cells to keep the disease at bay for at least nine months and up to more than a year in some mice. The findings were published in Nature Biotechnology.
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Scientists have also cured cancer in mice.
Good news... if you’re a mouse.
In before the Eeyores.
Too late.
BTW, the link you provided is bad.
Here is the correct link to the article:
https://www.indy100.com/article/diabetes-cure-science-mice-human-cells-9366381
Again, the cute little rodents get cured first. PDJT should do something about this species discrimination in our health system.
Wilford is not amused!
“Good news... if you’re a mouse.”
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Especially insulin-dependent ones.
Generation of pancreatic β cells from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) holds promise as a cell replacement therapy for diabetes. In this study, we establish a link between the state of the actin cytoskeleton and the expression of pancreatic tran-scription factors that drive pancreatic lineage specification. Bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing demonstrated that different degrees of actin polymerization biased cells toward various endodermal lineages and that conditions favoring a polymerized cytoskeleton strongly inhibited neurogenin 3-induced endocrine differentiation. Using latrunculin A to depolymerize the cyto-skeleton during endocrine induction, we developed a two-dimensional differentiation protocol for generating human pluripo-tent stem-cell-derived β (SC-β) cells with improved invitro and invivo function. SC-β cells differentiated from four hPSC lines exhibited first- and second-phase dynamic glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. Transplantation of islet-sized aggregates of these cells rapidly reversed severe preexisting diabetes in mice at a rate close to that of human islets and maintained normo-glycemia for at least 9 months.
The mouse stopped smoking lost a bunch of weight?
That's good, because Type I can't be fixed with diet.
...and you have insurance!
Let me guess, they fed them a low carb diet.
Scientists have successfully cured diabetes in mice for the first time, giving hope to millions of mice worldwide
Humans a really nothing more than servants for cats and mice.
Which diabetes? There are at least 2.
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