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Alpha-1 protein reverses Type 1 diabetes in mouse studies, raises hope for breakthrough in human diabetes
Diabetes Health
Diabetes Health has always been ambivalent when it comes to reporting diabetes research that involves mice. For one thing, although the critters are mammals, it’s a stretch to say that what happens in a mouse can be duplicated in a human.
For another, research involving animals is only the first step in a long process. The laboratory breakthroughs so breathlessly hailed today may take five or ten years to work their way to trials with humans.
But despite those misgivings on our part, there are times when news from the labs produces a genuine hope that the war on diabetes has reached a significant turning point. This is one of those times.
