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...stem cells and no longer needed insulin to control their blood sugar levels. In the new study, a follow-up of their previous work, Voltarelli and his colleagues detailed the same success with an additional eight patients, and also confirmed that in the majority of them, the stem cell transplant led to an appreciable repopulation of functioning insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas...
...idea behind the transplant is simple. In type I diabetes, the patient's own immune system turns on the beta cells that produce insulin, the hormone that breaks down the glucose we eat in food. Eventually, the immune cells will virtually eliminate all of the body's beta cells, and glucose levels will start to climb. Researchers believe that the trigger for this attack lies somewhere within the immune cells, so one possible treatment for the disease may be to wipe out the entire existing immune system and replace it with a fresh one, derived from stem cells without this...
...Oldham’s music laces granola folk with violins and soulful vocals to create slow, poignant rhythms. One of his albums, “The Letting Go,” was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland, and indeed, many of his songs transplant this glacial desolation to the American landscape of front porches and dark country nights...
Previous diagnostic tests relied on characteristic changes that occur when the disease is already far advanced, at which point the patients are near death or require a heart transplant, Saffitz said...
...earnestly responds, “Because the world isn’t fair. People keep getting their asses handed to them. Why shouldn’t we try and change that?”Many of the movie’s problems likely stem from the stage-to-screen transplant. The strictly color-coded groups of students are carelessly presented in the film, but would have more easily emerged as symbolic in a play. The coordinated yells of the supposedly riotous crowd sound more like the choreographed gangs of Bob Fosse than the visceral mobs of Spike Lee.A twist concerning...