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There was a recent "breakthrough" involving the same, except with patient's own stem cells, & not just in mice. https://stemcellres.biomedcentral.com/articles

• klipt 2y ago
  > patient's own stem cells > immunosuppression would not be required I don't think that's how Type I Diabetes works. People get Type I Diabetes because their immune system attacked their own insulin producing cells in the first place. It's an autoimmune disease. So if you replenish those cells, they'll just get attacked again.
  • gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
    Possibly, it is defo important to keep tabs on how these patients fare after a few years. before we rush to ship this From above link: >A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes became the first person to successfully receive a transplant of insulin-producing cells derived from her own reprogrammed stem cells
  • kakoni 2y ago
    There were these studies where t1d patients immune system was "restarted" and they became insulin free. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426276/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426276/