hi everyone, welcome back to my channel!
i'm so excited to see you again
i hope you are excited to see me too
thank you for waiting for me so patiently <3
it's been crazy busy months at work since i work
in the education field and september is the start of the new school year
i was very low on energy and time but now that i'm slowly getting my life back, my free time
i am super happy to be back here and to share today's article with you
so, grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee whatever you like most
and let's dive right into today's article
cheers!
the title of today's article is 'Taiwanese scientists discover potential cure for diabetes'
this is an article that appeared in 'Taiwan News' and was written by Keoni Everington
on the 23rd of september
i'm not gonna read the whole article to you but i'm just gonna read some highlights
there's also a lot of very scientific terms in this article that i didn't always understand
so i will spare you those as well
but if you want to read everything go and click on the article that i will put in the link down below
taiwanese scientists have discovered a key mechanism that causes diabetes
and developed a new drug treatment that could fully reverse the disease, according to reports
so as for now diabetes type 1 and 2 (as far as i know) has been categorized as a uncurable disease
i mean, you can kind of control it but not really cure it
so the title of this article sounds already very exciting to me
i don't know about you
diabetes has been shown to be caused by the loss and function of beta cells in pancreatic islets,
which are regions of the pancreas that contain hormone-producing cells
this is already a little bit scientific but i didn't even start yet
Yang Wen-chin and his team at Academia Sinica's Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center
have discovered through experiments on mice that the protein coding gene pdia4
(don't kill me if i say this wrong)
is responsible for the destruction of beta cells and that inhibiting this gene
can prevent and even reverse the loss of such cells
so here there is some more in-depth scientific terms about this whole process
but like i said i'm gonna spare you those details
the scientists found that the pdia4 ablation method alone,
or in combination with food reduction could fully reverse diabetes
that's literally the words they use: "fully reverse" it
the researchers believe that the reversal of diabetes in the mice
was the result of reduced beta cells deaths and/or replenishment of beta cell
Yang was cited by CNA as stating that preclinical studies have been completed
with the support of the ministry of science and technology
phase 1 clinical trials are slated to begin in taiwan in january of the next year
and it is estimated that it will take at least seven years
for the drug to complete clinical trials and reach the markets
it's crazy to hear that there might be a cure
but that it will take like at least seven years to complete this whole trial process
i guess that's just the way it is with many drugs
i think that's one of the many reasons why some people don't dare to be vaccinated for covid
because they are thinking: how is it possible that the trial period was so short
as for other medicine it is so long
from what i learned i think it's very related as well to funds and time
suddenly the whole world stopped, the economy started really suffering
so everybody was fighting and racing to get that cure,
knowing that it would really make a lot of money
and also that the world really needed it
i think that's mainly why there were so many resources
from so many countries that went right into researching vaccines for covid
and there are so many other diseases that get less funds
so this one will take seven years but i still think this is pretty awesome news
because like i said, up until now it wasn't even thought possible to have a cure for diabetes
so to know that they're working on something,
that could potentially after seven years help people with diabetes is pretty amazing
according to the health promotion administration statistics
there are approximately two million people who suffer from diabetes in taiwan
new cases increase at a rate of 25 000 per year
so that's a crazy big amount of people affected by it
and that's why if they really find a drug to help diabetes
it will change so many people's lives
i hope you were as happy to hear about this news as i was when i read it
and let me know what you think about it in the comments down below
thank you so much for joining me again and i will be back very soon with a new video
oh and today's password...
wait, i should have thought about this before
let's say
'september'
if you watched the video until the end write 'september' as password
and then i know that you watched until the end and you are super awesome!
thank you so much and i'm so glad that september ended because like i said,
that was a crazy month at work and now suddenly i feel like things will slow down a bit
and i will have more free time so can't wait to spend more time with you guys again
see you very soon in the next video. bye ~