Juvenile diabetes cured in lab mice

[wdlove]

The MGH scientists injected diabetic mice with the spleen cells. The cells migrated to their pancreases, prompting the damaged organs to regenerate into healthy, insulin-making organs, ending their diabetes.

"This shows there might be a whole new type of therapy that we haven't tapped into," said Dr. Denise Faustman, MGH immunology lab director and lead author of the new study, which appears today in the journal Science. "We've figured out how to regrow an adult organ."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/14/juvenile_diabetes_cured_in_lab_mice/

[Les Kern]

My wife has been type II for 24 years. If this turns out to be the answer, I will buy each of theose researchers a new car.

[wdlove]

I'm sorry to hear about that Les Kern. Is she able to control her diabetes with diet?

[kwajo.com]

Originally posted by wdlove
I'm sorry to hear about that Les Kern. Is she able to control her diabetes with diet?


I agree, this would be huge! a number of people in my family are diabetic, including my brother who is type I (regular injections) and I have a 33% chance of becoming diabetic (based on genetics) before 25.

[wdlove]

Below is aq diabetes risk calculator, with additonal information on the disease.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/diabetes/?treets=bos&tml=bos_health&ts=T&tmi=bos_health_1_12150111142003

[themadchemist]

this sounds great! I look forward to seeing the results. Indeed, it seems that the key to our current roadblock may have been found. Just as the advent of the antibiotic opened up a whole world of treatments, it seems that regeneration (by this means or perhaps stem cells ) may be the key to next generation of treaments...wouldn't it be great if we had our next penicillin, and those pesky diseases (by way of the even more pesky bacteria) could not mutate immunity? Stupid immune Hfr strains, ruining it for all of us.

[i]Originally posted by Les Kern
My wife has been type II for 24 years. If this turns out to be the answer, I will buy each of theose researchers a new car.

i can understand the sentiment! somehow, I imagine that they will be able to buy quite a bit themselves if this pans out...

[hvfsl]

Originally posted by Les Kern
My wife has been type II for 24 years. If this turns out to be the answer, I will buy each of theose researchers a new car.

I thought it was only type 1 that they cured (the one where you have to inject). Type 1 and 2 diabetes are actually different deseases (even though the effect that you cant eat sugar is the same).

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by wdlove
Below is aq diabetes risk calculator, with additonal information on the disease.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/diabetes/?treets=bos&tml=bos_health&ts=T&tmi=bos_health_1_12150111142003

Well, I'm at low risk. My grandfather on my mom's side was diabetic, but no one on my dad's side is. I tend to take after his side more with health stuff.

Wdlove, that tv station website looks an awful lot like this one (http://www.wdsu.com). ;)

[FelixDerKater]

I'll definitely be passing this article on to my friend. He has had Type I for a while now. This would be amazing if it worked in humans.

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Well, I'm at low risk. My grandfather on my mom's side was diabetic, but no one on my dad's side is. I tend to take after his side more with health stuff.

Wdlove, that tv station website looks an awful lot like this one (http://www.wdsu.com). ;)

I agree with you eyelikeart, they must be using a common web designer. Yours seems to be an NBC station, mine is ABC.

I'm also at a low risk. It take after my mother's side. My father had an aunt with diabetes.

[eyelikeart]

Strange stuff. They must have the same parent company somehow, but with different affiliations?

Anyway, glad to see the low risk factors going on in here. ;)

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Strange stuff. They must have the same parent company somehow, but with different affiliations?

Anyway, glad to see the low risk factors going on in here. ;)

Yes, I agree with you eyelikeart. I think it has to do with the higher intelligence and educational level of Mac users. Life style plays a big role in Type II Diabetes.