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> 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
by 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 agoPossibly, 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 agoThere 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/