Mouse Experiment Cures Type 1 diabetes But Not As Previously Reported

The 2003 mouse experiment suggestive of a cure for type 1 diabetes has been facing controversy all these days. Researchers attempting to reproduce it found evidence that the experimental procedure does eliminate diabetic symptoms in a small fraction of the mice exposed to it! And to the extent it was previously thought to be! No signs of the procedure, working in the manner reported by the group of researchers that originated it, the School of Medicine scientists found. The WUSTL group is one of three labs that reported in the March 24 issue of Science on these attempts to reproduce the earlier experiment.


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