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Diabetes is potentially ‘reversible’

November 14, 2003

Boston, MA - A cure for insulin-dependent diabetes may be in sight after United States scientists not only halted the disease in mice, but reversed it. Planned patient trials could lead to a cure for the disorder, scientists say.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said they had reversed the disease in mice by injecting them with spleen cells from healthy animals.

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