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Title: Gene therapy was used to cure type 1 diabetes in dogs.
Post by: riazur on May 06, 2015, 01:53:23 PM
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Five beagles were cured of their canine type 1 diabetes using gene therapy — a process by which the patient is inserted with DNA that produces a therapeutic protein to treat a disease. Four years after the treatment the dogs still had no symptoms of diabetes. The researchers hope to test the therapy in humans soon.