James Law

James Law

Dec 16, 2015

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Increased funding target

Now that we've surpassed our original target it seemed like a good idea to increase our ambitions. So we've doubled the target - this will allow us to increase the number of participants from 2 to 4, doubling the number of cell lines we can create and increasing confidence in the results being repeatable and replicable.

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About This Project

Diabetes in childhood is life changing, needing daily insulin injections to get strict blood sugar control & prevent heart disease & early death.

Specialized "brown fat" cells regulate blood sugars & may hold the key to future treatments. They burn sugar & fat, improving metabolic health & obesity, but no one has found a good way to trigger this in humans.

Our lab-grown human brown fat cells will behave like those in the body, speeding discovery of possible treatments & human trials for diabetes & obesity.

Blast off!

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