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Re: Pig cells could provide diabetes cure - 2008/01/23 18:47
I am pretty sceptical about this but optimistic (as in willing that it works). For one thing monkeys, no matter how similar to humans, are still diferent beings and that might not work on humans as their cell structure may be a bit more diferent to the donor cells than monkeys'. Secondly the nature of the speciments' diabetes is not stated: if it is autonomic (it appeared for the same reasons as to any other of us) then the reaserch is of quite some use, then again if it was caused deliberately then there are many more variables that need to be concidered: what if our organism starts atacking the new cells?
All in all there is little hope here, but still there is some.
As for Type I vs Type II it's just that Type I is a bigger priority since there is a 0% of diabetics that have been cured from T1, whereas T2 sometimes get's cured.
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