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World’s first: stem cell therapy reverses diabetes (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/science@mander.xyz

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[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

techniques involving immunosuppression are not breakthroughs. Immunosuppression alone is enough to reverse type 1 diabetes, it's an auto-immune disease.

But obliterating the immune system has more risks consequences than insulin treatment, so it's never done in practice..

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