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• Pancreatic cells altered for Type 1 diabetes
  
  A race is on to find a way to cure Type 1 diabetes by regenerating the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas that are lost in the disease. Without them, the body is unable to metabolize sugar, forcing patients to compensate by injecting themselves with insulin several times a day.
• Another cure for Type 1 diabetes ... in mice
  
  One popular strategy has been to try to get embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells -- which can theoretically become any type of human cell -- to grow into the beta cells that diabetes patients need. Last year researchers from Harvard University took a huge shortcut and transformed normal pancreas cells into the coveted beta cells by activating a trio of dormant genes.
• Experimental Treatment Aims To Stop Diabetes
  
  s many as 3 million Americans are living with type 1 diabetes. Doctors say having a sibling or parent with the condition ups your risk of developing it by 10-fold, and managing it can mean four or more injections a day or wearing an insulin pump.
• Pancreatic Cell Transplants Engineered To Evade Immune Response
  
  In a finding that could significantly influence the way type 1 diabetes is treated, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a technique for transplanting insulin-producing pancreatic cells that causes only a minimal immune response in recipients.
• Experts Agree You Can Eat Diabetic Desserts on a Type 2 Diabetic Diet. Find a Free Diabetic Dessert Recipe at AmericanDiabetes.com
  
  04/20/2005 Experts now agree that it is possible for diabetics to eat desserts on a type 2 diabetic diet. According to the American...
• 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.
• Diabetes story inspires hope
  
  News that insulin pumps, currently supplied without cost to youth aged 18 and under in Ontario, will now be provided to adults as well
• Stem cell research supported by those with diabetes, other illnesses
  
  Though research is still 15 to 20 years from finding a cure, diabetes is one disease that is expected to be helped by stem cell research. The goal is to develop stem cells that can replace the cells in the pancreas that do not produce insulin.
• Pumpkins Could End Need For Insulin Injections
• Medtronic Gets OK for Insulin Pump with Glucose Monitor
  
  The device, known as the Minimed Paradigm Real Time System, relays glucose readings every five minutes from a glucose sensor to the pump