From the New York Times article, I learned that researchers today are trying to use embryonic cell to provide insulin producing replacement cells to treat the disease in people. Expert say that cells might not be well characterized at this point for people and it would take several years before they start the human test. Based on the article, embryonic stem cells can turned in to any type of cell in the body and it could be an islet cells. During the year of 2006, researchers had turned human embryonic stem cells into insulin producing cells that can possibly help people with diabetes in the future. Also scientist had destroyed the mice’s islet cells by using toxin and animals that receives the human cells are continues to produce insulin and control their blood sugar.
Things I would like to know after reading this article:
Why do researchers use to mice’s to do the testing?
How did the researcher turn the human embryonic cells into insulin?
What are islet cells?
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