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Here's the actual URL to the Massachusetts General's study. Initially, I questioned whether this was true or a hit-piece/fake news against Aspartame.

http://www.massgeneral.org/abo...

http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=2016

Missed my link: http://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/about/newsarticle.aspx?id=3057

Here's a link to the press release from Massachusetts General Hospital about the study I referred to above.

And shame on you for not taking my word for it.

nevermind, I found it. The "nano" refers to the size of the sutures. http://www2.massgeneral.org/wellman/faculty-kochevar-research-proteincrosslinking.htm Probably hard to publish an article without using the term "nano" somewhere

I rtfa and I can't find a direct link to the use of nanoparticles. Are they the component of the "glue" that, when activated by the laser forms the seal? Or are they a figment (pigment?) of imagination here and used to attract readers with a buzzword? http://www2.massgeneral.org/wellman/faculty-kochevar-projects.htm

here is where the industrial kicks in

And you asked where I work? We affectionately refer to it as Man's Greatest Hospital

Then other scientists couldn't repeat the findings.

Which other scientists (just curious)? What's suspicious about all this is that JRDF, which will throw money at everything from new implantable device research to stem cell research won't fund research into Denise Faustman's legitimate breakthrough discovery. Could it be because her discovery involve a cheap drug whose patent has expired?

it's highly possible that the number of eggs a woman has is not finite at all, but rather new egg cells can be produced well into adulthood.

http://www.massgeneral.org/news/releases/031004til ly.htm

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/03/ 10/eggs.php

Type 1 diabetes develops when the body's immune cells mistakenly attack the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas. As islet cells die, insulin production ceases, and blood sugar levels rise, damaging organs throughout the body. In their earlier study, Faustman's team directly attacked this process by retraining the immune system not to attack islet cells. They first used a naturally occurring protein, TNF-alpha, to destroy the mistargeted cells. Then they injected the mice with donor spleen cells from nondiabetic mice. A protein complex on these cells plays a key role in teaching new immune cells to recognize the body's own tissues, a process that goes awry in diabetes and other autoimmune disorders.

The researchers expected to follow that process, which eliminated the autoimmune basis of the animals' diabetes, with transplants of donor islet cells. However, they were surprised to find that most of the mice did not subsequently need the transplant: Their bodies were producing normal islet cells that were secreting insulin.

There are really cool technologies that are being molded into fantastic new medical treatments and diagnostic equipment.
Some of these are Plasmon Resonance, Optical Coherence Tomography, Photodynamic Therapy just to name a few.
You can read more about these at http://www.massgeneral.org/wellman/