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Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first (www.nature.com)
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A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body.

“I can eat sugar now,” said the woman, who lives in Tianjing, on a call with Nature. It has been more than a year since the transplant, and, she says, “I enjoy eating everything — especially hotpot.” The woman asked to remain anonymous to protect her privacy.

James Shapiro, a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, says the results of the surgery are stunning. “They’ve completely reversed diabetes in the patient, who was requiring substantial amounts of insulin beforehand.”

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[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can thank dubya for vetoing that

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Every sperm is sacred.

Or something.

/s

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Only embryonic stem cells were because of Bush. America now uses induced pluripotent stem cells generated from in this case the patient herself but can also be made from any volunteer skin biopsy.

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