Swiss researchers have performed a feat that many specialists had until now held to be impossible: they have extracted stem cells from a 50-year-old test subject's fatty tissue and applied genetic reprogramming to make them mature into functional beta cells.
In the presence of glucose, the beta cells generated using this "genetic software" produce the hormone insulin - just like natural beta cells, which are found in the pancreas.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/ez-bcf040816.php
Paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160411/ncomms11247/full/ncomms11247.html
In the presence of glucose, the beta cells generated using this "genetic software" produce the hormone insulin - just like natural beta cells, which are found in the pancreas.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/ez-bcf040816.php
Paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160411/ncomms11247/full/ncomms11247.html