Study Shows Hope for Diabetes Patients Using "Adult" Stem Cells

While the Senate voted yesterday to fund embronic stem cell research, researchers from Brazil reported on a study that used stem cells retrieved from diabetes Type 1 patients that were then "returned" intraveneously back into the same donor patients. Many of the patients then had remarkably long periods where they lived insulin free and had blood sugar levels within normal ranges.

The report can be found in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.