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...study on mice, the researchers found that a protein used to treat people with emphysema and lung diseases may also promote insulin production in diabetics...
...protein is as effective in humans as it was in mice, a few months of treatment would permit type 1 diabetics to produce their own insulin, rather than injecting themselves with synthetic insulin with each meal...
...protein cure would be the first of its kind, and could be particularly useful in treating children, who cannot receive transplants because of the severity of the immunosupressant drugs that are required...
With the new treatment, Kolumanda said, the protein suppresses the cells that would inhibit the production of insulin and increases the production of those that enchance it. This, she said, creates “a very friendly environment where the beta cells are not attacked anymore and where the [insulin-producing] cells can recover and multiply...
Only one percent of the human genome actually makes proteins, the building blocks of cells and tissues, and Church has sequenced roughly 20 percent of those protein-coding genes for each of the PGP-10, including himself...