Protecting beta cells against stress may guard against type 1 diabetes. – Brinkwire

Type 1 diabetes occurs when a person’s own immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. In recent years, scientists have learned how to grow large volumes of replacement beta cells, but the researchers are still trying out many options to protect these cells against the immune attack. Joslin Diabetes Center researchers now have found an unusual strategy that eventually may help to guard such transplanted beta cells or to slow the original onset of the disease.
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