Diabetes

Insulin producing cells offer hope for people with type 1 diabetes.

"Scientists are working on a new technique to produce cells with insulin secreting capabilities which could eventually be used in a transplantation process to help patients with type 1 diabetes.

Could artificial insulin producing cells replace insulin injections for people with TYPE 1 DIABETES?

For this cells reprogrammed to secret insulin.

A technique with future potential- in this study the group reprogrammed HDDCs ( Human Pancreatic Duct Derived Cells) behave like beta cells and secret insulin, the pancreas in response to glucose.

Researchers hope that batches of cells might be produced that could eventually be transplanted in to human patients with diabetes.

They also hope that this system for cellular reprogramming with transcription factors using mRNA will be applicable to other scientific fields, potentially trading to the production of cells with a new function in context of other diseases where loss of function has taken place."

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Source – http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/library/diabetesreportcard2014.pd