![]() Ralph DeFronzo from the University of Texas, the co-author of the study which used this technique to counter diabetes mellitus in mice, these edited pancreatic cells acted “basically just like beta cells” by secreting insulin “only in response to glucose”. This method of gene transfer, called cellular networking, integration and processing, works by sneaking certain genes into the pancreas using a virus. That’s why gene transfer, which coaxes non-beta cells in the pancreas into making insulin, promises to be an ideal method of curing diabetes. ![]() ![]() Beta cells in type 1 diabetics aren’t exactly very abundant, and transplanting replacement cells into the pancreas is laborious, expensive and, worst of all, temporary. ![]()
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