The novel delivery mechanism has commercial potential in treating diabetes, since prosperous countries are full of diabetics.
"The news of a potential Type 1 diabetes cure at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona is extremely interesting, " she said.
These include medicines with potential for treating cancer, diabetes, AIDS and (think 60% of Americans) obesity.
Omada Health has the potential to re-create the Diabetes Prevention Program on an even greater scale.
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Lechleiter points to Arxxant, an experimental treatment for some complications of diabetes, as one potential winner.
Upper respiratory infections, pollution, head trauma and diseases including diabetes all have the potential to compromise our sense of smell.
Another set of potential winners: a class of diabetes medicines that may also eliminate the risk of heart attacks, known as PPAR drugs.
AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), the U.K.-based pharmaceutical firm, has purchased two of the machines for screening potential drugs for diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
"In and of themselves, sugary soft drinks are only part of the picture - they're just one of the potential risk factors for Type-2 diabetes, " he said.
While diabetes represents a very large potential market opportunity, Norwood and his partners, fellow Babson MBAs Jonas Shoor and Angela Sanchez, are initially targeting 40% of the 18 million people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes who try but struggle to consistently achieve their treatment goals.
Reports of his studies had attracted worldwide attention and enthusiasm from researchers and patients excited about their potential for treating diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Only last year, she said, Egli and Paull and their colleagues demonstrated that the nuclear transfer of eggs cells could generate patient-specific stem cell lines for potential cell replacement therapy to treat diseases like diabetes.
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Personalized medicine can also help profile someone's potential risk for contracting a disease like cancer or diabetes.
Takeda sells Actos, the world's top-selling diabetes pill, and Rozerem, a potential threat to sleep drugs like Lunesta and Ambien that so far hasn't taken off.
Like many of the numbers being tossed about in the stem-cell debate, this count is inflated by emotion: Langevin included all patients suffering from cancer, juvenile diabetes, heart disease and even arthritis as potential beneficiaries of the research.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, the doctors said the findings had the potential to dramatically improve the lives of people with type I diabetes.
Tiny implantable sensors are making their way to market, all with the potential to transform the treatment of chronic diseases such as heart failure, diabetes and epilepsy.
But he likes the idea that SurModics has a couple of potential blockbuster polymers, used in conjunction with drugs for the treatment of macular degeneration and diabetes, in development--and the fact that its stock is up 42% in the last two years.
Further, I suspect there is a lot of upside potential for the portfolios of investors bold enough to include various contenders in the competition to market the next big diabetes treatment.
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