Researchers from the Salk Institute took a major step forward in developing a new insulin-producing pancreatic cell cluster as a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes patients.
Researchers Working to Understand Why Some Patients with Autoimmune Diseases Develop Diabetes Instead of Arthritis
Arthritis, Autoimmune Diseases, Autoimmune inflammation, Beta cells, Diabetes, Genes, Immune Cells, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Insulin, Multiple Sclerosis, National Institutes of Health, Nature Genetics, Pancreatic beta cells, Pluripotential cells, Researchers, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Type 1 DiabetesRecently published research in the journal Nature Genetics found significant insight into this question: Why does a patient with an autoimmune disease become a type 1 diabetic rather than have rheumatoid arthritis?