2007 Diabetes News

Latest Articles from 2007 about Diabetes:

• Pumpkins could end need for insulin injections
• Type 2 Diabetes - Scientists Solve Critical Part Of Insulin Puzzle
  Scientists are now one step closer to improved treatment of Type 2 diabetes following significant findings made by scientists at Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research. World-wide, more than 200 million people suffer from this disease, resulting in disability and reduced life expectancy. In Australia it affects around 7% of the population.
  
  
• Diabetes Cure - Scientists Identified Gene That Causes Diabetes In Children
  Doctors hope they will soon be able to test infants for the gene, codenamed KIAA0350, and treat them for Type 1 diabetes, known as "insulin dependent diabetes", before it takes hold.
  
  
• Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act
  Stem cell research allows scientists to better explore how to control and direct stem cells so they can grow into other cells, such as insulin-producing beta cells found in the pancreas.
  
  
• Foundation optimistic cure can be found for Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes Genes Mapped Out
  Scientists say they have mapped the most important genes that put people at risk of type 2 diabetes, offering hope that a test could be delivered.
  
  
• Diabetes cure could lie in mushrooms
  Sydney researchers are working to see whether the extra large medicinal fungi can reduce high blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol.
  
  
• Stem cell research supported by those with diabetes, other illnesses
• Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring Technology for Diabetes
  The company is currently developing a non-invasive ocular glucose measurement device that aims to provide an alternative to the current finger prick method of diabetes blood sugar measurement and monitoring
  
  
• Insulin Pills Possible with Nanoshells
  Researchers have developed a method for loading nano-sized particles with insulin that could one day lead to insulin pills — and with them, the end of needle-based delivery
  
  
• S. Korean researchers develop diabetes cure from adult stem cells
  A team of South Korean scientists claimed Tuesday they have succeeded in producing the first cure for diabetes using adult stem cells
  
  
• Mother's Stem Cells Offer Hope
  US scientists found they can develop into functioning islet beta cells which produce insulin in the pancreas.
  
  
• Defence Cell Genetics Unscrambled
  Scientists at two US centres found links to genes already thought to be important in diseases where the body's immune system attacks normal tissue by mistake.