As technology and scientific medicine improve, research has shown that there may be the potential for a stem cell diabetes cure. Stem cells, unlike other cells in the body which are predisposed to become a specific type of cell, have the ability to grow into a multitude of other kinds of cells within the human body. They are the foundation of life itself due to this adaptive ability, and are present to a large extent especially, although not exclusively, in the early development of the human body. In the battle against diabetes, stem cells may play an important role due to just such abilities.

What is most highly needed in diabetic patients is for the pancreas to create the hormone insulin, which helps the body absorb glucose into the bloodstream. Diabetes occurs when the body produces glucose at levels that are insufficient to allow this to happen, or when …