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Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years?

Posted by kdawson on from the medical-miracle dept.

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.

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  1. A treatment for diabetes? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sweet!

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    1. Re:A treatment for diabetes? by From+A+Far+Away+Land · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    2. Re:A treatment for diabetes? by samkass · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. Unfortunately by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:Mouse diabetes? by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"

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  4. This couldn't come soon enough by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.
  5. Bad Humor is expected by wasted · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.
  6. At least it's not always 20 years away! by bigtrike · · Score: 3, Funny

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