Rather than trying to reactivate the insulin-producing beta cells, researchers say that reprogramming the alpha cells into beta cells may be a better route to take in order to treat type 2 diabetes. The scientists, from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, explained in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that they managed to treat human and mouse cells with compounds that altered the chromatin (cell nuclear material) in alpha cells so that they induced the expression of beta cell genes...
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