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Diabetes cure? Stem cell breakthrough could spell end to daily insulin injections – Belfast Telegraph

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2014-10-10 NEWS

Belfast Telegraph

Diabetes cure? Stem cell breakthrough could spell end to daily insulin injections
Belfast Telegraph
Human stem cells were coaxed into mature “beta” cells, which make the insulin hormone within the pancreas, using a cocktail of 11 chemical growth factors. Patients with type-1 diabetes lack beta cells because they are destroyed by their own immune …