McCauley HA, Wells JM. Sweet Relief: Reprogramming Gastric Endocrine Cells to Make Insulin.
Cell Stem Cell 2016;
18:295-7. [PMID:
26942844 DOI:
10.1016/j.stem.2016.02.009]
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Abstract
Two promising approaches toward a cell-based cure for diabetes are the directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells or lineage reprogramming of other cell types to generate beta cells. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Ariyachet et al. (2016) reprogrammed gastric endocrine cells to generate a renewable source of insulin-producing cells.
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