Potential new treatment for diabetes following discovery of humanin

Even if the obesity trend cannot be reversed, here's hope that it's partner in crime - diabetes - might be thwarted. New research published in the December 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal shows how a recently discovered human peptide, called humanin, could lead to powerful new treatments for some people living with diabetes. That's because research in mice and rats shows that a humanin analogue (a peptide molecularly similar to humanin) increases insulin secretion leading to an increase in glucose metabolism within beta cells.