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I've been looking at all the methods of treating Type I and II diabetes like the insulin pumps, the medi-jector VISION system, pens and even the Exubera inhalation system which is in trials. The sad part is that I see potential problems with all of these techniques...I wanted to get a feel for what you guys think of the current technology...some of my family members have diabetes, so if I'm pre-diabetic, then I wanted to understand from early on what the best type of treatment is.

I was talking to my friend in college the other day and he told me about their cool concept for diabetes treatment...it involved "gene therapy" where Type I and late stage Type II diabetics would receive an injection that would allow their cells to produce insulin, and then would take everyday tablets to activate their new insulin producing capability. I thought it was incredible ! The sad part is that it was just a concept they had for some class, but who knows ? What do you guys think ? Maybe someday someone will develop something like this...