Liver therapy may cure diabetes, says study

A study published in the journal Developmental Cell suggests that diabetes could be cured by causing liver cells to produce insulin.

Five years ago, researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas,  USA, found that they could cause the livers of mice with damaged  pancreases to produce insulin using neurogenin3 gene therapy. The blood  sugar of the mice then returned to normal following only one treatment,  however, the effect only lasted for six weeks.

The scientists now believe that they understand how the treatment works,  by utilizing adult stem cells to alter the liver.