Skin graft therapy and insulin production

Type 2 & MODY T2 Research
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This interesting research in mice at U Chicago Medical center uses CRISPR to express, in skin grafts, a glucagon-like peptide, GLP1, which stimulates insulin production:

Far from human application but interesting: if it ever works on humans you could treat Type 2 diabetes with skin grafts, at least for a time.

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Lucky mice, LOL, But kidding aside, I have taken GLP1 drugs and found them very useful for a while before they stopped working. I hope that if this ever comes to fruition that they figure a way to extend its usefulness to be permanent.

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