A Vaccine to Cure Type-1 Diabetes?
Posted on: Saturday, September 16th, 2006 at 6:54 amI came across a very interesting article with some news on Diabetes vaccine research being done in UCLA.
“A new vaccine being tested in a human clinical trial holds a great deal of promise for treating type 1 diabetes, a disease that newly afflicts 35,000 children each year. The research that established the foundation for this vaccine was conducted in UCLA research laboratories. The drug is still being tested and is not likely to be available for at least a few years.”
The actual treatment is quite interesting and the research being done involves brain patterns and specific enzymes in the body. They are in Phase 2 of the research now and have been doing tests in all over including 8 Hospitals in Sweden.
The vaccine is of course many years of but if they reach Phase 3 it only means they are making that much more progress. I will definitely be keeping and eye on this.
You can find the full article on the scienceblog.com
Type-1 Diabetes:
“Type I diabetes — also known as insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes (because it usually begins in childhood or adolescence) — afflicts more than 1 million Americans. It is characterized by a failure of the body to produce insulin because the immune system attacks and destroys the body’s insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.”
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