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The Bergen researchers collaborated with Swiss and Dutch colleagues to obtain the results of the publication Wednesday evening in the scientific journal Nature, writes Bergens Tidende.
– In the world of science, publishing in Nature is a World Cup medal, says Professor Helge Ræder, who heads the Norwegian research group.
In diabetics, the immune system has destroyed pancreatic cells producing insulin. The researchers took other hormone-producing cells in the same gland and programmed them to produce insulin. When these cells were transplanted into mice, the animals were cured of diabetes.
– Currently, this is done only in the laboratory and in the mouse. But I hope the method can be made available to people in the next five to ten years, although there is still a long way to go, says Ræder. Although the experiments were performed on mice, human cells from donor organs were used.
In Norway, 28,000 people have type 1 diabetes. Before insulin injection occurred in 1922, it was a life-threatening illness.
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