Visit Diabetes News from dLife.com

Battling Diabetes With Beta Cells

Posted on September 02, 2008

September 2, 2008 (EurekAlert) - Affecting eight percent of America's population, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure, strokes and heart disease. Thanks to Tel Aviv University researchers, a new cure based on advances in cell therapy may be within reach. Prof. Shimon Efrat from TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, whose research group is among world leaders in beta cell expansion, has developed a way to cultivate cells derived from insulin-producing beta cells from human tissue in the laboratory. It may be possible to implant these new healthy cells into patients ...

Original article link


childhood , diabetes , heart disease , insulin , type 1 diabetes