New Possible Cure in Sight

New Possible Cure in Sight: Professor Ann Simpson and her team at the University of Technology, Sydney, believe their research could lead to a treatment for Type 1 diabetes within 3 years, after they successfully reversed the debilitating disease in mice, rats and pigs. “We are thrilled with the results we have seen so far and I see absolutely no reason why the same technique will not work on humans.” “It would release diabetics from having to inject insulin and, probably more importantly, it would help the people who are developing really bad complications.” The cure would involve implanting the human insulin gene into the liver, which then secretes insulin instead of the pancreas. Patients would need to undergo one-off keyhole surgery to inject the gene in the portal vein of the liver.