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UCLA Newsroom: "Researchers discover mechanism that could convert certain cells into insulin-making cells"

Scientists from the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center believe that they may have discovered the underlying mechanism that could covert other cell types into pancreatic beta cells.

ABC News-(KGO-TV in San Francisco): "Lab compound could help fight age-related diseases"

Gordon Lithgow, PhD, Director of the Larry L. Hillblom Center for Integrative Studies of Aging at the Buck Institute and current LLHF network grantee, discusses his active research that explains how a common laboratory dye, Basic Yellow 1, slows Alzheimer's disease-like pathology in worms.