Source: Reuters Health
Posted: April 10, 2007 6:33pm ET
Summary:
Reuters reports on a new procedure using adult stem cells to potentially treat type-1 diabetes:
"Stem cells taken from the blood of a few diabetes patients have "re-set" their immune systems, helping 14 out of 15 live for months and even years without insulin, researchers reported. While they are not claiming to have cured the patients, they said their experiment shows it may be possible to at least interrupt the mistaken immune response that destroys insulin-producing cells in type-1 diabetes."
