Medical researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered potential stem cells in the pancreas, a finding that could lead to new treatments for diabetes.The study, published yesterday in the online edition of Nature Biotechnology, identified individual cells in the adult mouse pancreas capable of making insulin-producing “beta cells.”
These beta cells make up the tissues in the organ that release insulin and help regulate the body’s blood sugar levels.
It’s important news for the millions of people worldwide who have Type 1 diabetes, which usually starts in childhood or adolescence, and who take insulin injections to regulate their body’s blood sugar levels. The insulin shots compensate for defective pancreatic portions of tissue, or islets.
“People have been intensely searching for pancreatic stem cells for a while now, and so our discovery of precursor cells within the adult pancreas that are capable of making new pancreatic cells is very exciting,” said Simon Smukler, a Ph.D. candidate in U of T’s medical genetics and microbiology department. He conducted the study with Ph.D. candidate Raewyn Seaberg and their supervisor, Professor Derek van der Kooy.
It’s good to know that in modern countries, medical research still goes on.
So your theory is that Canadian scientists made this discovery because American scientists were afraid the Bush administration would ban research on mice in the near future and didn’t want to open themselves up to retroactive prosecution?
I can’t believe you keep posting articles you haven’t read.
Maybe you are a bot, just scan the newswire for articles that include “stem cells” and “discover*” and then post it. Because the part you quoted included the part about it being mice.
Yeah, I don’t understand why scientists spend so much time trying to help out mice. Shouldn’t they be trying to make life better for us humans?[/quote]
Yeah… there are humans who need their help! And what’s up with all the fruit fly research??? Slackers, all of them!!
Yeah, I don’t understand why scientists spend so much time trying to help out mice. Shouldn’t they be trying to make life better for us humans?[/quote]
we also give them cancer and make them become obese.