Recently, a team of Japanese researchers, from the AIST Institute in Tsukuba, has claimed that the human brain has adequate potential to treat diabetes. Afterwards, the specialist team has insisted that attributes of neural stem cells can be used to combat the shortage of insulin-producing cells. The procedure will remove the need of gene transfer mechanism to cure the diabetes.

In addition, experts have notified that Beta cells serve as site to secrete insulin in the pancreas, which plays the most significant role in monitoring glucose levels. "However donation shortages of pancreatic beta cells are a major hurdle to advancing this treatment. So a safe and easy way of using stem cells for obtaining new beta cells has been long awaited”, explained Dr. Tomoko Kuwabara, the lead study author.

The study was carried out with focus on creating procedures in order to define human stem cell differentiation. The method helps to customize a cell for performing special function and to be used in cell replacement treatment because diabetes is caused by absence of a single type of cell.

Meanwhile, experts have claimed to made use of a cloning form in order to create personalized embryonic stem cells among humans.