1. At one point, her dream was to be a researcher and cure diabetes. 2. But Saltzman, pastor at Ruskin Heights Lutheran Church, told the committee he would not want his diabetes cured if it meant destroying an embryo. 3. Dozens of people will testify he has cured their diabetes and reversed blindness by reciting the Koran. 4. Last March they cured diabetes in mice using stem cells from the pancreas from adult mice. 5. Researchers report promising results in the transplantation of insulin-producing islet cells into a damaged pancreas, a breakthrough that, if successful, would cure diabetes. 6. The treatment cannot cure diabetes because patients have already lost too many islet cells by the time of diagnosis. 7. Using stem cells to cure diabetes, for example, would mean converting them to islet cells, specialized cells of the pancreas that secrete insulin. 8. A substance that has cured diabetes in some laboratory animals is now being tested on people. 9. For instance, new insulin-producing cells could be grown to perhaps cure diabetes. 10. For instance, new insulin-producing cells could be grown, perhaps to cure diabetes. |