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Pioneering way to fight diabetes on the horizon

A rat cell under a microscope that is stained blue where the nucleus is and green where insulin is expressed
This image shows a rat cell re-programmed to express insulin (green). The nucleus is stained blue.
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Pioneering way to fight diabetes on the horizon

Pioneering research published today in the journal Diabetes by John March, associate professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, could lead to a pill with engineered a strain of lactobacillus, a human probiotic, that helps a person’s own small intestine control #diabetes.

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