Nature reported that a 25-year-old woman living with type 1 diabetes "began producing her own insulin again" less than three months after she received a transplant that contained reprogrammed stem cells.
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Groundbreaking Procedure Offers Hope for Curing Type 1 Diabetes
Nature reported that this "groundbreaking procedure offers hope for the treatment of type 1 diabetes" that does not involve immunosuppressant drugs or donor tissue.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison reported that this is "the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body."
The woman lives in Tianjin, China but chooses to remain anonymous. When Nature interviewed her, it had been more than a year since she received a transplant.
The woman said, "I can eat sugar now. I enjoy eating everything -- especially hotpot."
Other medical professionals have confirmed that the results are groundbreaking.
James Shapiro, who is a researcher and transplant surgeon at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, said:
"They've completely reversed diabetes in the patient, who was requiring substantial amounts of insulin beforehand."
The woman is now producing her own insulin and many medical researchers are taking note of the positive results.
Sources:
University of Wisconsin - Madison Clinical Trials Institute.
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