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    Gene therapy offers long-term treatment for mice with diabetes

    by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Jan 08, 2018 4 minutes

    The newly resurgent field of gene therapy, which recently produced treatments for blood cancers and blindness, has taken a step toward fighting a scourge that is on the rise worldwide: diabetes.

    In research reported last week in the journal Cell Stem Cell, scientists showed that a single infusion of a virus containing two handpicked genes restored normal blood sugar levels in mice with Type 1 diabetes.

    Although the effects of the therapy faded after four months, prompting the mice to return to their diabetic state, the equivalent improvement in humans could last for several years, the researchers said.

    Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks the

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