The Change Mariner

Cure Closer for Diabetes

Herald Sun (Australia):

MELBOURNE scientists have made a world-first breakthrough that offers the best hope for a cure for diabetes.

A team of surgeons and chemical engineers is growing a mini-insulin-producing organ in a diabetic rat.

A million Australians and 190 million people worldwide are affected by diabetes -- when sugar and starch are not absorbed by the body because of a lack of functioning insulin in the pancreas.