"Deng says they didn’t see [the body attacking the islet cells due to autoimmunity] in the woman because of the immunosuppressants, but they are trying to develop cells that can evade this autoimmune response." Really hoping for a cure that doesn't involve immunosuppressants. #t1d#type1diabetes
“I can eat sugar now". A 25-yr-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin after a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells (extracted from her own body). Follows similar type 2 diabetes success. www.nature.com/articles/d41... by Smriti Mallapaty | Nature
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.
Life time immunosuppressant is in some ways worse than insulin therapy. There are people working on immunopriveldged pouch to get around this. Look at vertex vx264. They are not that close AFAIK.