Via ASweetLife.org – JDRF announced that research financed by JDRF may hold a key component for a possible type 1 diabetes cure.
According to Patricia Kilian, Ph.D., Program Director for Regeneration at JDRF, the study showed that the stress hormone could increase the rate at which insulin-producing cells in the pancreas expand in animal models. These findings reinforce the potential of regeneration as a cure for diabetes and provide insights for discovering new approaches to treat people with diabetes by restoring or regenerating their ability to produce insulin.
Further reading over at the JDRF site…
I personally do not think that stem cell treatment is going to be practical until there is set organization in the field. Regulation should be imparted on medical tourism in general, not just stem cells. Would be nice to see more organizations like Stem Cell Therapy Finder that can weed out the snake-oil and potentially harmful stem cell therapies that are currently out there.