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Diabetic Men May Be Able To Grow Their Own Insulin-Producing Cells
An anonymous reader writes "Men with type 1 diabetes may be able to grow their own insulin-producing cells from their testicular tissue, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers who presented their findings today at the American Society of Cell Biology 50th annual meeting in Philadelphia. Their laboratory and animal study is a proof of principle that human spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) extracted from testicular tissue can morph into insulin-secreting beta islet cells normally found in the pancreas. And the researchers say they accomplished this feat without use of any of the extra genes now employed in most labs to turn adult stem cells into a tissue of choice."
Sweet news.
Of all the luck, I was just castrated last week and now I find out.
That takes balls.
Men have always been able to create insulin-producing cells from their testicles...usually, though, they arrive with a baby wrapped around them...
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
And all that time, I was extracting spermatogonial cells from my testicular tissue and I didn't know how useful they could be! :-)
Bruce Perens.