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Well this is super exciting news!
“Two popular leukemia drugs, Gleevec and Sutent, kept lab mice from developing type 1 diabetes and put 80 percent of diabetic mice in remission, an international team said on Monday.”
The mice that went into remission happened after 8-10 weeks on the drug.
Can you imagine the potential for this? It could mean a cure is very close. But we’ve heard that several times over the last few years, so I won’t get (too) excited. Yet.
The article further quotes that, “The fact that the treated mice maintained normal …read more

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It always amazes me when I find out the kind of research that scientists do in the quest to find a cure for diabetes. For example, the latest one I’ve heard is from a study out of UC Irvine and the University of South Carolina. In the study, they looked at mice and found that “male mice who were in a calmer, more monogamous species had a higher level of stress hormones and a superior ability to regulate blood sugar compared with mice in another species that is not as calm or monogamous.”
That isn’t …read more

What does a glowing “light bulb” and mice have to do with one another?  No this isn’t a joke.  The answer… type 2 diabetes.
With over 20 million diabetics and over 50 million “pre-diabetics” the race is certainly on to find new drugs, treatments and ultimately a cure.  Researchers have now used a “light bulb” type activator to help us see exactly what occurs during and after the process of eating and the physiology that accompanies it. 
Using a sensitive camera, the light–a direct measure of CREB/TORC2 activity–could be detected and measured from outside of the live mice. Using biochemical and genetic …read more