Researchers created healthy beta cells, which are destroyed in type 1 diabetics
•Cells produced insulin and responded to blood sugar within days in mice tests
•It's a step forward in the long studied treatment of cell transplantation

Stem cells have been turned into insulin-producing cells in a medical breakthrough for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

Researchers have for years tried to figure out how to make the transformation in the hope of helping millions battling the condition.

Now, they created functioning healthy beta cells - which are destroyed in a type 1 diabetic's body - in a petri dish.

After transplanting them into mice, the cells began to produce insulin and respond to blood sugar within days.


It has the potential of 'finally finding a cure' to type 1 diabetes, which strikes around 1.25million in the US and 400,000 in Britain.


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