A new approach to treating type 1 diabetes? Gut cells transformed into insulin factories (EurekAlert, 11 March 2012)

12 Mar 2012


A paper published in Nature Genetics reports a knock-out study in mice which suggests that certain intestinal progenitor cells can be induced to grow insulin-producing cells.

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