Cancer drugs cure Type 1 diabetes in mice

A team of scientists from Plexxikon and UC San Francisco say they were able to eliminate symptoms of Type 1 diabetes in mice by treating them with Gleevec and Sutent, two well known cancer drugs. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists say they were also able to delay disease progression by giving the genetically modified mice daily treatments of Gleevec. Report