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Stem-cell therapy reverses type 1 diabetes in groundbreaking case study

October 4, 2024

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Are researchers getting closer to functionally curing type 1 diabetes? Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her own cells, to treat her type 1 diabetes.
Researchers in China discovered the woman did not need to use insulin 75 days after the procedure, and that the stem-cell derived islet cells she was injected with had been engrafted inside her abdomen.
More people have been enrolled in this trial and other stem-cell therapy…

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