Diabetic potential to create own insulin: Type 1 diabetes patients attempt to replenish beta cells

Monday, June 14, 2010 - 10:53 in Health & Medicine

Results of new research reveal that the insulin-producing beta cells can proliferate in patients recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and suggest that, in the future, an intervention might be devised which could allow such patients to renew their own capacity to produce insulin.

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