Chili peppers: is there anything they can't do?

Researchers in Canada have discovered an interesting aspect of pain cells in the pancreas of diabetic mice.

There's an article in yesterday's National Post about researchers curing diabetes in mice "virtually overnight" through the injection of capsiacin.

I also had this story pointed out by my friends who hold a hotluck every year. (Every dish at a potluck is spicy. Last year I made peanut-butter-and-habanero-jelly sandwiches.) Some growers in England produced a pepper that measures 923,000 Scoville Units. Considering the hottest pepper I've ever had—the Scotch Bonnet—measures a mere 100K-350K, that's scary as hell. I can't imagine actually using one in a dish.