Re: Possible Eventual Cure for Type I Diabetes?

August 25, 2004

Hello all,

I've been away for a few months, but I'm not happily on the list again...

This is actually a follow study on work being done across the street from me

here (University of Alberta). For the record, successful human trials have

been underway for years now & the UofT group is (I believe) looking into

alternative or more effective means of harvesting the pancreatic cells --

that's it...

The beeb article says:

> Professor Anne Cooke, from the Stem Cell

> Institute at the University of Cambridge,

> said it was " an encouraging first step "

> which could hopefully be followed through

> to the production of stable cell populations

> secreting insulin in real life conditions.

It's worth pointing out that " the Edmonton Protocol ... has been

successfully used to free patients from insulin by transplanting

donor-pancreatic cells--cells needed to produce insulin--into eight people

from Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. All needed up to

15 self-injected insulin shots a day before the study, which took place more

than a year ago. " In other words, it's " an encouraging first step " toward

an alternative method of harvesting cells for a procedure that's already

being used. The article also got the University of Toronto's name wrong...

=e

Cheers,

james

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