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Diabetes Update:

1.'Reverse vaccine' a potential treatment for type-1 diabetes- 

Vaccinating type-1 diabetes sufferers with specially engineered DNA might help to protect the body’s insulin producing cells.

2. Stem cells can be  used to protect and regenerate beta cells, which normally are damaged by high sugar diets in the process.
3.A new technology could free diabetics and cancer patients from the daily necessity of painful routine injections (injectable, reformable and spreadable hydrogels which can be loaded with proteins or other therapeutics)  by releasing the required drug dosage over six months.
4. a compound has been developed by research that  stops the immune system attacking the pancreas. (In Type 1 diabetes, the patient’s faulty immune system targets the pancreas).

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