Umbilical cord cells could produce insulin: study
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Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may someday be used to treat diabetes, U.S. and British researchers reported on Friday.
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Nerve cells in the pancreas may be a cause of type-1 diabetes in mice -- a finding that could provide new ways to treat the disease in humans, Canadian and U.S. scientists said on Friday.
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Cord blood offers an ethical means of using stem cells to heal illness.
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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.
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US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future. Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a
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Individual cells in the pancreas that are capable of producing insulin-producing beta cells have been identified in adult mice by University of Toronto scientists.
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An international team of scientists has isolated pancreatic stem cells in adult mice, a breakthrough that could lead to treatment for juvenile or Type 1 diabetes, researchers said in a study published Thursday.
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Stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood can help reduce stroke damage, claims a study by scientists at the Medical College of Georgia and the University of South Florida.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Leukemia patients in need of a bone marrow transplant may have new hope, thanks to research conducted on umbilical cord blood.
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Doctors have successfully transplanted insulin-producing cells from a mother to her diabetic daughter.
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Young children with diabetes can be treated as effectively with a portable insulin pump as with multiple daily insulin injections, researchers report
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Millions of diabetics may one day be relieved from having to inject themselves with insulin, a new study suggests. Researchers have identified cells in the pancreas of mice that are capable of generating insulin
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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Scientists have developed an easy-to-use technique for reprogramming a skin cell of a mouse back to the embryonic state, which could have implications for regenerative medicine in humans.
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Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have induced human insulin-producing cells of the pancreas to revert to islet precursor cells.
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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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(Ivanhoe Newswire) --- High levels of allergens in a baby&#39;s umbilical cord blood may play a key role in understanding the development of childhood allergies and asthma, according to a new study published in Thorax.