Scientists Reportedly Reversed Type 1 Diabetes by Reprogramming Patient’s Fat Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells

Scientists Reportedly Reversed Type 1 Diabetes by Reprogramming Patient’s Fat Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells

ByNews Polite

For the first time, a team of researchers in China has reversed type 1 diabetes by converting a woman’s own fat cells into insulin-producing cells. Led by Dr. Hongkui Deng at the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at Peking University, the team is reported to create new insulin-producing pancreatic cells…