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Is diabetes curable with gene therapy? I'm surprised we can cure hemophilia with gene therapy but not diabetes. Is it impossible to get your pancreas to create
by syntaxing 8y ago
Is diabetes curable with gene therapy? I'm surprised we can cure hemophilia with gene therapy but not diabetes. Is it impossible to get your pancreas to create insulin naturally because it's missing something vital?
[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-therapy-used-treat-hemophilia https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-th...
- sithlord 8y agotype 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where your immune system kills the beta cells that live on the pancreas. you can get donar beta cells that will work but your immune system will just kill them off again. This only works with immunosuppresents which will cause 10x more issues than just taking insulin.
- syntaxing 8y agoInteresting, I never knew type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. I just thought the body just stopped creating insulin because the pancreas is messed up.
- dTal 8y agoWhy would that surprise you? Hemophilia is a genetic disease, while diabetes rarely is. The pancreas has the genes it needs, it's just damaged (in type 1) or ineffective (in type 2)