NZ company claims diabetes breakthrough

A New Zealand bio-tech company is trumpeting a major breakthrough after a diabetic given a trial transplant of pig cells was able to stop her insulin injections.

Auckland-based Living Cell Technologies (LCT) announced this week that one of two patients taking part in a Russian trial of the therapy "is potentially cured of diabetes".

"Remarkably, a month after the first dose one patient is currently not dependent on insulin," LCT medical director and therapy inventor Professor Bob Elliot said in a statement.

Via NZ Herald

One many diabetics will be keeping an eye on! When I was a student nurse (oh so many years ago) we could not have imagined this.