A Breakthrough
From Technion
Professor Suheir Assady of Technion's
Rambarn Medical Center, Bruce
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, has led
a study that used human embryonic
stem cells to produce insulin in tissue
culture.
This finding, reported in the journal
Diabetes and published by the American
Diabetes Association (ADA), could lead
to a treatment for Type I, or juvenile,
diabetes.
Assady and his team derived stem
cells from a human embryo days after
fertilization in tissue culture into a mass
of cells that possess characteristics of the
pancreatic cells that produce insulin.
According to the ADA, the only way
now to cure Type I diabetes, which can
also strike adults, is by pancreatic trans-
plantation. Because the organs are in
short supply, stem-cell research is one
avenue for finding alternative sources of
insulin-producing pancreatic cells.
For information about this research
or the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa, contact Nancy
Gad-Harf, (248) 737-1990.
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