Cure for Type 1 diabetes imminent after Harvard stem-cell breakthrough
By
Ronny Lavie
source
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
A cure for diabetes could be imminent after scientists discovered how to make huge quantities of insulin-producing cells, in a breakthrough hailed as significant as antibiotics.
Harvard University has, for the first time, managed to manufacture the millions of beta cells required for transplantation.
It could mean the end of daily insulin injections for the 400,000 people in Britain living with Type 1 diabetes.