The researchers hope that new clinical tests and scientific experiments in the future will result in a new treatment for type-2 diabetics.

The discovery could open the door to new treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes, and it has the potential to help hundreds of millions of people and dramatically cut health care costs.

International Diabetes: New treatments which are shown here at ADA have always paid close attention to exciting therapies and GLP-1 is one of those therapies.