We’re another step closer to reducing the need for round-the-clock insulin injections to manage diabetes after a new study showed how insulin-producing cells could be regenerated in the pancreas.
The breakthrough was made by getting pancreatic ductal progenitor cells – that give rise to the tissues lining the pancreas’s ducts – to develop to mimic the function of the β-cells that are usually ineffective or missing in people with type 1 diabetes.
Researchers, led by a team from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Australia, investigated a new use for drugs already approved by the FDA that target the EZH2 enzyme in human tissue. Ordinarily, this enzyme controls cell development, providing an important biological check on growth.
Took me a few clicks to find the paper.
I read this paper last week when a click-bait article on this subject was posted. The research itself is very promising and I was glad to read it but I can’t stand these articles that make it sound like we’ll have a cure soon.
Gotta generate those clicks so it’s gotta either be a miracle or the worst thing ever, we don’t tolerate nuance around here. /s obviously
Wow, if it’s true this, combined with this vaccine
would be a major breakthrough!
