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Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.
A woman with type 1 diabetes started producing insulin (blue) after a stem cell transplant.Credit: Lennart Nilsson, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, TT/Science Photo Library The study, published in Cell today, follows results from a separate group in Shanghai, China, who reported in April that they had successfully transplanted insulin-producing islets into the liver of a 59-year-old man with type 2 diabetes 2. But Deng and his colleagues modified the technique 3: instead of introducing proteins that trigger gene expression, as Yamanaka had done, they exposed the cells to small molecules.
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