Cure for type-1 diabetes is already within reach after Harvard University announced on Thursday that researchers are one step away from the remedy.
The latest breakthrough in Science is a long wait for many individuals who are suffering from the said condition. After 23 years of research, Prof. Doug Melton of Harvard revealed that the study in finding a treatment for the kind of metabolic disorder is almost finished. Melton, who is currently leading the study, has been working on it since his child was diagnosed with the said condition as an infant.
"We are now just one pre-clinical step away from the finish line," Melton said about the progress of the research.
The discovery of the production of insulin-producing cells could end the occurrence of daily insulin injections to many individuals who have been diagnosed with type-1 diabetes. The development of the cure has been reportedly derived from the human embryonic stem cells and is currently undergoing trials in animals.
No cure is yet known for the type-1 diabetes; thus, thus new study is considered as a huge leap in the modern science. The insulin-dependent or also known as the juvenile diabetes results to the autoimmune destruction of the beta cells which produces insulin from the pancreas. With the absence of insulin, blood sugar levels in the body increase and becomes hard to control which could later on result to the damage of the different organs in the body.
According to a report from TIME, the final step in the study of finding a cure for the type-1 diabetes involves seeking a way to protect the 150 million beta cells needed for transplant. With that, Melton along with other researchers is now working to develop a kind of device that would protect the cells and for the human transplantation trials to become possible.
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