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Posted on: Sunday, July 24, 2022 – 6:29 AM | Last update: Sunday 24 July 2022 – 6:29 AM
Australian scientists from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have found a way to regenerate insulin in pancreatic stem cells, which is a major medical breakthrough towards developing new treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
In the current study, Australian scientists resorted to using stem cells to activate the pancreas to secrete insulin in a patient suffering from type 1 diabetes; These stem cells played a role similar to the functional role of beta cells, along with the use of a drug to treat diabetes that has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, but it has not yet obtained a permit to put it on the market.
It is known that the type 1 diabetic suffers completely from the failure of the pancreas and its inability to secrete or fully represent the hormone “insulin”, which makes him a permanent need for external therapeutic doses of insulin.
Although more research is needed in this regard, in principle this new approach will allow the replacement of insulin-producing cells, beta cells, which are destroyed, with stem cells capable of replacing their lost functional role.
Scientists believe that the results of this study pave the way for the development of a potential treatment option for patients with diabetes dependent on insulin primarily.
