Type 1 Diabetes Breakthrough with Artemisinin Treatment

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Source: The Diabetic News

Researchers have announced that FDA-approved artemisinins, used for decades to treat malaria, offer a completely new therapy for type 1 diabetes.

It promises to be a simple and elegant strategy to heal diabetes type 1: Replacing the destroyed beta-cells in the bodies of patients with newly-produced insulin-secreting cells.

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Then a team coordinated by Stefan Kubicek, Group Leader at CeMM, eventually got a lead: In their latest study, published in Cell (DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.010), they showed that artemisinins hit the bulls eye.

With a specially designed, fully automated assay, they tested the effects of a representative library of approved drugs on cultured alpha cells and found the malaria drug to do the required job.


Read more: http://thediabeticnews.com/cure-type-1-diabetes-artemisinin-treatment/

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Pretty cool when they find out a drug for one thing can be used for something totally different...

[harun]

1. Good news

[Sunny05]

2. K&R

Thanks for sharing!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. We will need to wait and see if this holds up.

All too often some exciting new breakthrough is announced, that turns out to be nothing at all.

It would be nice if just once they hype matched the reality.

[nolabels]

4. It's sounds like from the article, that they found out how the tire and wheel work now..........

all they have to do is figure out how to put it on the car.

Of course and luckily the car has already been built for them