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"Functional cure" for diabetes restores insulin production with stem cells | A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease. The treatment involves growing and transplanting new insulin-producing cells from the patient’s own stem cells.
A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease, requiring no insulin doses for over a year. The treatment involves growing and transplanting new insulin-producing cells from the patient’s own stem cells.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the patient’s immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Now, early results from a phase I clinical trial suggest that replacing those lost insulin-producing cells with new ones could be a viable treatment. A potential complication is that the patient’s immune system still needs to be suppressed – after all, replacing the damaged cells doesn’t tackle the root cause of this autoimmune condition.
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