February 12th, 2006 It has been found that direct implantation of stem cells into the pancreas of type 2 diabetic individuals enhances the production of endogenous insulin. Not only this, it also helps to increase C Peptide levels and decrease the sugar level in blood.

April 4th, 2005 A diabetes epidemic is under way. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 30m people worldwide had some form of diabetes in 1985; by 2000, the number had increased to 177m.

March 23rd, 2005 "Positron Emission Tomography is being installed at AIIMS next month, through which we will get the final proof of our work on heart patients. All the patients would be screened for finding how viable our work was and would also study various heart tissues of the patients metabolically," Dr P Venugopal, director AIIMS, said.  "We also plan to inject stem cells directly into the pancreatic arteries of patients suffering from diabetes," he says.

October 24th, 2008 Stem cell is the future in the world of medicine. Now the therapy is likely to be used for diabetes treatment.

June 5th, 2009 Korean scientists discovered that fat under the eyelids which was previously discarded after double eyelid surgery contains abundant amounts of neural stem cells, that may hold the ability to cure diabetes, the disease which has been identified as a slow killer. The research team lead by professor Kim Hae-kwon of Seoul Women's University, have able to manipulated this multipotent stem cells retrieved from human eyelid fat to specifically secrete insulin.

June 30th, 2007 A new US study offers insights into the way stem cells from umbilical cord blood can be used to successfully treat diabetes. Researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine studied twenty children aged between two and seven with type 1 diabetes, seven of whom were injected with cord blood cells.

January 17th, 2007 Rep. Zack Space made an emotional appeal to colleagues on the House floor Thursday, imploring lawmakers to support legislation to lift federal funding limits on embryonic stem cell research, saying the bill is his son's "only meaningful hope for a cure." Space's youngest son, Nicholas, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes 10 years ago, when he was 6 years old. Since then, he has waged a battle against this devastating disease - undergoing thousands of injections and blood tests.

February 3rd, 2007 Regardless of the emotional and religious issues surrounding stem cell therapy, scientists are confident stem cell research will lead the way to understanding and curing many of the diseases humans suffer from today. One disease which could benefit from such research is diabetes.