NIH Confirms Protocol To Reverse Type 1 Diabetes

FiReaNGeL writes "In 2001, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrated the efficacy of a protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in diabetic mice. New data from a study performed at the National Institutes of Health provides additional confirmation of the ability to reverse type 1 diabetes and on the role of spleen cells in islet regeneration. Spleen cells appear to contribute to islet recovery more in mice who are older and with more advanced diabetes compared with younger mice with less advanced diabetes, in which regeneration of remaining islets may be the dominant mechanism."

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Re:itll be years

[LiquidCoooled]

That just shows, if the protocol had been released under the BSD or even GPL license, we could have ported it to humans by now.

Oblig /.

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares about NIH - does Netcraft confirm it?

Re:When will it get converted to real therapy?

[Alky_A]

God I wish I was a mouse... they know how to treat everything for them. Wait... what are you doing? What's in that needle??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Re:Missing something?

[mcrbids]

Uh, do you know how many people would need to be in on such a conspiracy? The folks who came up with the concept, the folks who developed some molecules that might work, tons of people involved in clinical trials, etc. It would probably be just as easy to fake the Apollo landings.

Uhm... hello????

Everybody knows that the Apollo missions were faked!