# The Cellular Networking, Integration and Processing (CNIP) Project: a potential cure **URL:** \ **Category:** T1 Research\ **Created:** [January 18, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-cellular-networking-integration-and-processing-cnip-project-a-potential-cure/3276 "2018-01-18T16:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-cellular-networking-integration-and-processing-cnip-project-a-potential-cure/3276/4 "2018-01-18T18:55:13Z")
@docslotnick reported on this fascinating project in this thread in the past: > [@Novel Line of Research for a Cure UPDATE](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/novel-line-of-research-for-a-cure-update/605): > > “Beta cell formation in vivo through cellular networking, integration and processing (CNIP) in wild type adult mice” Drs. Ralph Defronzo and Bruno Doiron have published research on a novel approach to cure T1 diabetes by using a virus to inject genetic instructions to pancreatic cells in diabetic rats to begin producing insulin. These cells are not originally tasked with insulin production, but the genetic material injected via virus causes them to take on the additional task of insulin product… Here is an interesting 2016 NIH article from Curr. Pharm. Biotechnol. about the project: > **[Beta Cell Formation in vivo Through Cellular Networking, Integration and...](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5421132/)** > > Insulin replacement therapy is essential in type 1 diabetic individuals and is required in ~40-50% of type 2 diabetics during their lifetime. Prior attempts at beta cell regeneration have relied upon pancreatic injury to induce beta cell... --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-cellular-networking-integration-and-processing-cnip-project-a-potential-cure/3276)._