Monday, March 27, 2006

Efforts To Replicate Controversial Diabetes Therapy Bring Partial Success

Source: University of Chicago Medical Center
Posted: March 26, 2006

An effort by researchers at the University of Chicago to confirm the results of a high-profile study that brought extraordinary hope to diabetes researchers and patients worldwide has met with considerable, but not complete, success. The researchers were able to reverse type-1 diabetes in one-third of mice but were unable to find any evidence of insulin-producing beta cells derived from donated spleen cells, initially thought to be a crucial component of the therapy.

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