Skin Cells Used To Produce Insulin In Mice For Diabetes Research.

reports that in a paper published online by the Public Library of Science, researchers from the University of Iowa “say they’ve retrained human skin cells to produce insulin in mice, a discovery that they hope could someday help reverse the effects of diabetes in people.” One of the study’s investigators “said stem cells from human embryos can be used to” grow a new pancreas but “that method is controversial...because it involves the question of whether it’s ethical to use embryonic tissue to treat diseases.” http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2015/01/28/university-iowa-diabetes-stem-cells/22491289/