Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes
...hat they showed in previous studies is elevated in diabetic animals and may be involved in the cascade of immunological events that leads to the destruction of the pancreas and the subsequent onset of type 1 diabetes. The disease is much less common than type 2 diabetes, formerly known as adult onset or non-i...NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step
...atients' damaged bones. She is performing tests on diabetic animals, after which she'll test patients at the clinical level. Arinzeh is collaborating on the research with Sheldon L. Lin, MD, an assistant professor of orthopaedics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark. Arinzeh has ......lying type 1 diabetes actually cured thedisease in diabetic mice. Late in 2003 they reported the mechanismbehi...m the spleens of donor mice -intended to train the diabetic animals' immune systems not to attackislet cells - were actually producing new islets. The result su...