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- Antidepressant shows promise as cancer treatment
- New approach to treating type 1 diabetes? Transforming gut cells into insulin factories
- New transplant method may allow kidney recipients to live life free of anti-rejection medication
| Antidepressant shows promise as cancer treatment Posted: 11 Mar 2012 09:30 PM PDT An antidepressant combined with a drug derived from vitamin A could be used to treat a common adult form of leukemia, suggests laboratory research.  |
| New approach to treating type 1 diabetes? Transforming gut cells into insulin factories Posted: 11 Mar 2012 12:07 PM PDT A new study researchers suggests that cells in the patient's intestine could be coaxed into making insulin, circumventing the need for a stem cell transplant. Until now, stem cell transplants have been seen by many researchers as the ideal way to replace cells lost in type I diabetes and to free patients from insulin injections.  |
| New transplant method may allow kidney recipients to live life free of anti-rejection medication Posted: 11 Mar 2012 11:53 AM PDT New ongoing research suggests organ transplant recipients may not require anti-rejection medication in the future thanks to the power of stem cells, which may prove to be able to be manipulated in mismatched kidney donor and recipient pairs to allow for successful transplantation without immunosuppressive drugs. A new clinical trial is set to study the use of donor stem cell infusions that have been specially engineered to "trick" the recipients' immune system into thinking the donated organ is part of the patient's natural self, thus gradually eliminating or reducing the need for anti-rejection medication.  |
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