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Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first

Patient is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.
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A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells1. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body.

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Nature 634, 271-272 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03129-3

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