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ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Reprogramming cells to fight diabetes

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:13 AM PST

For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, with limited success. The "reprogramming" of related alpha cells into beta cells may one day offer a novel and complementary approach for treating type 2 diabetes. Treating human and mouse cells with compounds that modify cell nuclear material called chromatin induced the expression of beta cell genes in alpha cells, according to a new study.

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