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Researchers say diabetes treatment breakthrough could lead to end of insulin injections

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Researchers say diabetes treatment breakthrough could lead to end of insulin injections

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Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 10 months ago

Researchers at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute say they've discovered a way to make pancreatic cells produce insulin using existing cancer drugs.

study in question: EZH2 inhibitors promote β-like cell regeneration in young and adult type 1 diabetes donors

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Presumably not, since the repurposed cells won’t have the same surface antigens that the immune system targets for destruction.

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