For the first time, researchers have converted induced pluripotent stem cells - cells capable of turning into any other type of cell - into fully functioning pancreatic beta cells, and when transplanted into diabetic mice, they blocked the disease altogether.
Lab-grown human beta cells have blocked diabetes in mice for good. David Nield. Medical Daily. April 17, 2016. http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-grown-human-beta-cells-that-can-stop-diabetes-in-mice
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