Type 1 diabetes breakthrough as stem cells make billions of human insulin cells

In what is being described as an important advance in the field of stem cell research, a new study reveals how scientists successfully created billions of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells from embryonic stem cells. Stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types such as skin, muscle and bone.

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