UK scientists start diabetes vaccine trials
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A team of UK scientists is set to test a new vaccine that could represent a cure for type I diabetes, the most serious form of the condition which usually affects the under 40&#39;s.
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Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, more than three years after becoming the first nation to authorize the technique to produce stem cells for medical research.    A team of researchers at Newcastle University hope eventually to create insulin-producing cells that could be transplanted into diabetic patients...
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There are now 1.8 million people in the UK with diabetes - up by 400,000 in just eight years, a report has revealed. Experts fear the number will surge further in coming years as the population becomes older and fatter.
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Science & environment: British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients' damaged hearts
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The National Institutes of Health is launching a human trial to test the safety of an experimental vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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Scientists are testing a vaccine that could prevent heart disease and reverse damage to clogged arteries.
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A drug used to treat diabetes also seems to prevent it in people at high risk of developing the disease, the largest study ever to test this has found.
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Here&#39;s some hope for people who are at risk for Type 1 Diabetes: A vaccine to fight the disease is about to be tested on humans for the first time.
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Transplants of insulin-making cells have not lived up to the promise they showed in an initial trial.
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Novartis gets set to market a novel diabetes treatment, with EU approval that is not all it had hoped for.
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University of Toronto researchers have identified cells in an adult mouse pancreas capable of generating insulin-producing beta cells.
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Charity Diabetes UK said there were currently 1.8 million people suffering from the condition - up by 400,000 in just eight years.
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Scientists say it may be possible to use a breath test to monitor blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.
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Medical researchers will start  trials of an HIV vaccine in Sweden in October and expect to  extend the program to Tanzania next year, a senior member of  the research team said on Friday.
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Texas researchers will begin clinical trials of an experimental vaccine against the deadly toxin ricin, a biological agent that can be tested only in select labs.
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Indian scientists on Monday began the country's first human clinical trials of a vaccine designed to prevent AIDS.
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Graduate students at the University of Toronto have boosted hopes for an effective diabetes treatment after growing insulin-producing tissue from the single cell of a mouse pancreas.