Health Buzz: Hope for Diabetes and Other Health News

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Gods Friend,
You hit the right button. If cures for incurable diseases will ever be found, millions more will be added to the unemployed and America's economy could never rise up from the pits.
And it would be a double (or maybe more) whammy if the medicine would come from cheap sources, those that nature intended for us to use.

Gerry Vergara of 12:57AM January 26, 2009

To Gods "Friend of XX"
Picking up sticks with my butt cheeks is well within my abilty, and hope (along with faith and love) is something that cannot be killed. It is hope that inspires these men and women to do this sort of research that changes lives. Maybe not today, but it is coming and hope is good!
May God bless their efforts.

Marty of TX 11:14PM August 28, 2008

If adult cells of different types can be "reprogrammed", that suggests the genetically governed process of aging might also be conveniently reversible, one day. There might be more genetic fiddling to be done, but it seems a direct extension of the work described in the article.

maxxer of CA 7:36PM August 28, 2008

If man was meant to be cured he would have had it a long time ago. Studies are proving nothing, but keep trying. Jobs are needed in the medical chemistry area.The doctors just treat and medicate. They don't cure you. Never will, so give up on your false hopes of ever finding good cures.You have better odds of picking up sticks with your butt cheeks. Over and out.

Gods Friend 6:26PM August 28, 2008

The article is correct, the cells need to respond to glucose in the blood, my responding, they me producing insulin when there is a hyper- situation, high amounts of glucose in the blood. The other half the trick then is to get the cells to shut down when glucose levels get low. Both are important for success, but shutting down production of insulin is extremely important since death would come on quickly with too much insulin.
Producing insulin is a big step, but like most diabetes research, it is very hard to replicate the complexity of the cells in the human body.
They have spent 20 years trying to wire the insulin pump to a glucose meter to automatically dispence insulin by reading the bloog/glucose level. But even with the technology being there, few companies would be quick to take this step out of the lab.
Now imagine trying to teach a cell to do this same step the DNA/stem cell research.

Carlo Pietro of 3:10PM August 28, 2008

I am a veterinary nurse and I was also wondering about the hyper/hypo mistake. It makes a difference which condition these made-over cells alleviate. Hyperglycemia is abnormally high blood glucose and hypoglycemia is abnormally low blood glucose. One (hyper) can lead to diabetic ketoacidosis, where your blood becomes literally syrupy and can be life threatening if untreated. The other (hypo) leads to seizures, coma and possibly even sudden death.

Kira Valentine of NC 1:11PM August 28, 2008

lolz kewl

of 1:02PM August 28, 2008

I'm just a lowly developer of video messaging campaigns at Viral Media Productions, but it seems to me that hyperglycemia is abnormally *high* blood sugar - not low blood sugar as stated in this article.

David Bain of VA 12:57PM August 28, 2008