A cure for diabetes?
A cure for diabetes?
In the process of redirecting pluripotent cells to the growth and development of desired lines of cells, scientists always get several different types: some of them are desired cells but the rest of them are not. Still, the benefits of the stem cell's potential are often among ethical thinking. We can stop and wonder, is this the best way to help cure certain if not many diseases or down the line, we are causing many struggles.
Let's see it from both perspectives. One common disease is very much present in our population: Diabetes and it seems that numbers are rapidly growing. People all around the globe are suffering from this condition and to keep them alive and well, scientists produced synthetic insulin. The production and consumption of synthetic substances is positively affecting human lives which will be very endangered without it. One step forward would be to make a permanent cure/ Luckily, last week’s experiment was a success in making a permanent cure for Diabetes mellitus condition.
"These mice had very severe diabetes with blood sugar readings of more than 500 milligrams per deciliter of blood – levels that could be fatal for a person," explained biomedical engineer Jeffrey R. Millman from Washington University in February last year.
"When we gave the mice the insulin-secreting cells, within two weeks their blood glucose levels had returned to normal and stayed that way for many months.(sciencealert.com)
Human pluripotent pancreatic cells were redirected in their development to make insulin and later on, transferred to mouses. Cells were able to produce insulin and cure mouses from diabetes in a very short period of time. A clinical study with humans is not yet finished but this finding from the year 2020 was very successful and promising.
Will knowledge of a permanent cure for this common health issue make people be even more irrational when act upon their health?
Finding a natural solution for any condition is a huge success and will always benefit not just because our population will be healthier but because pharmaceutical production will focus on natural solutions.
