Here’s some exciting news for diabetics. In fact, the more I read about diabetes treatment these days, the more excited I become. A group of researchers took non-obese diabetic mice which had recently developed Type 1 diabetes, and injected them with an “anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody for five days, followed by transplantation of embryonic pancreatic tissue, and, for short-term glucose control, implantation of a subcutaneous insulin pellet.”

Most of the mice maintained normal blood sugars after the removal of the insulin pellet. The transplanted cells were shown to migrate to the pancreas of the test subjects.
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Here’s some fabulous news if you are a Type 1 diabetic. Scientists in Israel have reversed Type 1 diabetes in primates “by transplanting embryonic pancreatic tissue from pigs, a procedure called interspecies organ transplant.” As if that wasn’t good enough news, they also discovered an important point when it comes to doing this procedure effectively. Apparently, it’s all about the timing.

“Pancreatic tissue taken from pig embryos at 42 days of gestation appeared to offer the best combination of characteristics for xenotransplantation.” If they harvest the cells too early, they may not have enough of the all-important …read more