Cure for Diabetes 1??

[rugatika]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3415843/Is-CURE-Type-1-diabetes-horizon-Scientists-imp.html

A cure for Type 1 diabetes is a step closer after scientists managed to halt the condition for at least six months thanks to insulin-producing cells.

Experts from US hospitals and institutions including Harvard University managed to transplant cells into mice, which immediately began producing insulin.

The team was also able to show they could prevent the cells being rendered useless by the body's own immune system, which was effectively 'switched off' thanks to scientific work.

[mooseknuckle]

Cool stuff. They have been playing with this stuff for along time. I've signed up for my "guinea pig" services as the research lab at the U of A. For transplant of isolet cells. Don't know if I'll see a cure in my lifetime..... but interesting stuff indeed.

[Jadham]

One can only hope it will pan out in the end.

I know a few with it.

[alacringa]

One can always hope. It'll be 31 years for me, next month.

[dodger]

Wasn't there a couple of researchers at the U of C that made the news stating they found a cure? I remember them mentioning they already incorporated a company to sell the cure? This goes back 5+ years.

If I'm wrong sorry.

Dodger.

[Drewski Canuck]

Actually the islet transplant team is based out of the Miscericordia Hospital in Edmonton.

The procedure is called the "Edmonton Protocol" and has been discussed by President Bush if I remember right.

Trouble with the surgery implant was that it worked for some very well, and some the islets of Langerhan?? died off in others within a year.

But still great progress!!!

Drewski

[dodger]

Actually the islet transplant team is based out of the Miscericordia Hospital in Edmonton.

The procedure is called the "Edmonton Protocol" and has been discussed by President Bush if I remember right.

Trouble with the surgery implant was that it worked for some very well, and some the islets of Langerhan?? died off in others within a year.

But still great progress!!!

Drewski

Thanks.
Dodger.

[Grizzly Adams]

Actually the islet transplant team is based out of the Miscericordia Hospital in Edmonton.

The procedure is called the "Edmonton Protocol" and has been discussed by President Bush if I remember right.

Trouble with the surgery implant was that it worked for some very well, and some the islets of Langerhan?? died off in others within a year.

But still great progress!!!

Drewski

Think it's the same people working on this. Progress comes in small steps in cases like this.

Grizz

[Drewski Canuck]

Lets hope and pray for a solid break through. If the pancreas can get going again, it would mean huge quality of life for elderly diabetics who suffer loss of eye sight, loss of sensation in the hands and feet, reduced circulation, etc.

This was my mother's experience with diabetes in her elderly years. Amputated toes make walking real hard.

Drewski