WOW! While this isn't UFO or alien related (that I know of), this is remarkable news that will impact lots of children and adults. How many people in the United States have diabetes?.......As of 2010, 25.8 million people—8.3% of the population—have diabetes; 1.9 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 years or older in 2010.
Another question of interest: What is the economic cost of diabetes in the United States?
The estimated economic cost of diabetes in 2007 was $174 billion. Of this amount, $116 billion was due to direct medical costs and $58 billion due to indirect costs such as lost workdays, restricted activity, and disability due to diabetes. (link relative to these two questions and answers + is below, cdc.gov)
Of course, application of this "wow factor" would be world wide!!
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/consumer/research.htm
This OP subject "Diabetes Breakthrough" simply stated is, "Scientists have long sought a better solution, and a team at Harvard is now announcing that, 15 years into its research, it has successfully coaxed human embryonic stem cells into ones that produce insulin".
Getting the cells to do that with has been the real problem, and now scientists have a way of manufacturing millions of cells!!!
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/10/new-diabetes-breakthrough-bigger-than-discovery-insulin/?intcmp=obmod_ffo&intcmp=obnetwork
Nice. :)
Those stem cells sure look like one of the best things discovered in the last years.