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DeSwiss

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Wed Mar 5, 2014, 08:34 PM Mar 2014

Researchers cure diabetes in mice



Reuters ·Published on Mar 5, 2014

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Mar. 5 - Researchers in California have turned skin cells in mice into insulin producing beta cells, effectively curing the animals of diabetes. They hope to achieve similar results in human cells, paving the way to an eventual cure for a disease that affects millions of people around the world. Ben Gruber has more.

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Researchers cure diabetes in mice (Original Post) DeSwiss Mar 2014 OP
How do they pay for their insulin? marble falls Mar 2014 #1
Takes a whole hell of a lot of COLGATE4 Mar 2014 #2
K&R. Sounds promising. Mr_Jefferson_24 Mar 2014 #3
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