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Diabetes: Can gene therapy normalize blood glucose levels?

January 8, 2018

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Researchers may have just found a way to restore normal blood glucose levels in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes, which could prove to be a promising solution for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in the future.

Dr. George Gittes, a professor of surgery and of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and team led the study. Their findings were published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease, affects around 1.25 million children and adults in the United States.

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