Re:Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation tech...
by gsf_emergency_2 on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:54AM
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Possibly, it is defo important to keep tabs on how these patients fare after a few years. before we rush to ship this
From above link:
>A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes became the first person to successfully receive a transplant of insulin-producing cells derived from her own reprogrammed stem cells
Re:Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation tech...
by kakoni on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:10AM
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There were these studies where t1d patients immune system was "restarted" and they became insulin free. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426276/
> immunosuppression would not be required
I don't think that's how Type I Diabetes works. People get Type I Diabetes because their immune system attacked their own insulin producing cells in the first place. It's an autoimmune disease. So if you replenish those cells, they'll just get attacked again.