Researchers at Columbia University's Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center were able to convert gastrointestinal cells into insulin-producing cells by switching off a single gene, raising hopes of the development of new drugs that can retrain cells inside a person's gut to produce insulin. The new research was reported today in the online issue of the journal iNature Communications/i. "People have been talking about turning one cell into another for a long ...Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Switching Off a Single Gene can Covert Gastrointestinal Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells
Researchers at Columbia University's Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center were able to convert gastrointestinal cells into insulin-producing cells by switching off a single gene, raising hopes of the development of new drugs that can retrain cells inside a person's gut to produce insulin. The new research was reported today in the online issue of the journal iNature Communications/i. "People have been talking about turning one cell into another for a long ...
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