Type one diabetics are constantly regrowing beta cells for insulin production!

Found this while digging around =D

“This gives us new insights into what is happening in the pathology of type 1 diabetes. The immune cells we identified send signals which appear to protect and promote growth of beta cells. This opens up an exciting new area that scientists have thought about; now we have the hard data to substantiate it,” says Dr. Kulkarni.

http://www.joslin.org/news/Joslin-identifies-immune-cells-that-promote-growth-of-beta-cells-in-type-1-diabetes.html

So, does that mean we have a case of mixed signals in our bodies? Insert a pun here.. Or does that say the same immune cells both attack and promote growth of the beta cells, at the same time?