Neat News 2618 (added 2023-03-02)
Treating diabetes type 1
Public Domain by International Diabetes Federation
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys the body's own insulin producing cells in the pancreas. Now scientists managed to implant such cells (originating from a donor or engineered from stem cells) to non-human primates. These cells then produced insulin. The therapy has then to be accompanied by immune suppressants so that the transplanted cells are not destroyed again by the immune system.
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