Scientists Hold Out Hope for Diabetes Cure

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"We have patients who are coming in every day donating blood for testing," Faustman said. Her estimate is that it will take 18 months for the tests and equipment necessary for a human trial to be ready. The trial will use injections of a well-known molecule called BCG to try to reverse the immune system attack, she said.

Meanwhile, she said, "We are actually elated by these studies. For 20 years, the hope has been that humans can regenerate insulin-producing cells. When we began this work we were not even allowed to use the word 'regeneration' in our papers. By 2003, we were able to use the word. These three landmark papers are extraordinarily important."

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