Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years?

resistant writes "Researchers at a Toronto hospital have stumbled upon a dramatic treatment for mouse diabetes, with large implications for the treatment of diabetes in humans. From the article: 'The islet inflammation cleared up and the diabetes was gone. Some have remained in that state for as long as four months, with just one injection... They also discovered that their treatments curbed the insulin resistance that is the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes, and that insulin resistance is a major factor in Type 1 diabetes, suggesting the two illnesses are quite similar.'"
Update: 12/17 03:46 GMT by KD : resistant adds that the Cell Journal article is posted as a PDF as well as in plain text.

Comments

A treatment for diabetes?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Sweet!

Re:A treatment for diabetes?

[From A Far Away Land]

Now, if only they could invent a cure for puns, something like an appundectomy.

Re:A treatment for diabetes?

[SueAnnSueAnn]

Oh I am becomming sick.
I don't want any more Punishment.

Sue

Re:A treatment for diabetes?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now we just need a way of turning human patients into lab rats...

Pinky are you there?

Re:A treatment for diabetes?

[samkass]

It's amazing what we're doing on behalf of mouse medicine these days. If scientists keep up at this pace, someday we'll have cured all mouse disease forever.

Re:A treatment for diabetes?

[Pusene]

It is with great sadness I have to tell you that research causes cancer in mice....

Unfortunately

[Timesprout]

You have to respond 'Mouse' to the question:

"Are you a man or mouse?"

for the injection to be successful, otherwise you just develop a serious cheese addiction.

Re:Mouse diabetes?

[Linker3000]

Yep, they work like - except that they operate their computers with a wireless or corded 'bloke' and read self-improvement books like "who moved my burger"

This couldn't come soon enough

[DoofusOfDeath]

Researchers at a Toronto hospital have stumbled upon a dramatic treatment for mouse diabetes

This was a tremendous advancement. Mice diabetes it the country's great silent killer, affecting some 200-300 billion obese mice each year who can't squeak in their own defense. Until then, please, leave out celery sticks instead of cheese.

Mouse Masters

[flyingfsck]

I guess the planet is really ruled by mice and that they are forcing scientists the world over to work on curing mouse diseases, as expounded in HHGG.

Bad Humor is expected

[wasted]

Now, if only they could invent a cure for puns, something like an appundectomy.

We all know that slashdot is full of bad humor, and if we want good humor, we have to look somewhere else.

At least it's not always 20 years away!

[bigtrike]

Even if it's perpetually a few years away, that's better than perpetually 20 years away, right?

Re:At least it's not always 20 years away!

[bhiestand]

Even if it's perpetually a few years away, that's better than perpetually 20 years away, right?
 
 

Isn't that like saying that infinity+1 is bigger than infinity?

If it never materializes, then it never actually is there to help.

Upon initial examination, that does seem to be the case. But you have to look deeper into it than that. Study the historical trends. Take sarcasometers, for example. For centuries, writers have been telling us that the technology was 20 years away. Then, in 1958, Robert Heinlein predicted that the technology was only 10 years away. Guess what? My parents gave me one for my 5th birthday. As the perpetuality decreases, the "_ years away" prediction cycle is actually decreased.

Still, if a sarcasometer is out of your reach, you can actually build your own satirometer. It will take a lot of research and time, though.

Knowing my luck

[elgee]

The cure will come a day after I assume room temperature. I have had it for 59 years. Hanging in there...

Good News!

[camperdave]

Good News! Your diabetes has been nearly cured. All you will have to is get periodic injections, and monitor your blood sugar. Other than that, you're cured!