Stem Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes by Jayashree on June 9, 2021 at 9:45 PM
Recently developing a promising approach for treating this condition is reported in the journal
Nature Communications by Scientists at the Salk Institute using stem cells to create insulin-producing cells (called beta cells) to replace non-functional pancreatic cells with proven results in mouse model. Stem cells are an extremely promising approach for developing many cell therapies, including better treatments for type 1 diabetes, says Salk Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, the paper s senior author.
‘New stem cell therapy can effective to treat type 1 diabetes.’
The investigators started with human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) having the potential to become any kind of cell found in the adult body coaxed into beta cells in a stepwise fashion that mimicked pancreatic development using various growth factors and chemicals resulted in about 10 to 40 percent of cel