Beta cells from love handles

Monday, April 11, 2016 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

A synthetic genetic program has been used to instruct stem cells taken from fatty tissue to become cells that are almost identical to natural beta cells. This brings them a major step closer to a personal repair kit for diabetes sufferers.

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