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Molecule Discovered for Pancreas Development Saturday, July 11, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, to no avail. Now, they may be one step closer. A protein, whose role in pancreatic development has long been recognized, has been discovered to play an additional and previously unknown regulatory role in the development of cells in the immature endocrine system. These cells ultimately give rise to pancreatic islet cells, which include beta cells. (source: uphs.upenn.edu)
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