Another cure for diabetes, but this one worked...at least once

Sounds promising. Stem cell treatment, so it does require immunosuppression (which might be worse that diabetes for most of us). It appears to only require infusion and not a surgical implant though. First patient seems to have been cured, so it looks promising. I think this is the study on ClinicalTrials.gov:

(found based on same study sponsor- Vertex Pharmaceuticals & treatment is a biologic)

They seem to still be recruiting patients (only 17 total) from multiple sites around the country. Not even a phase 1 trial yet! The official title calls it “A Phase 1/2 Study”. Very interesting- if only they would combine this with that treatment to stop your T-cells from destroying your islet cells so they can drop the immunosuppression (I don’t remember where I saw that one- someone please post a link below if you remember).

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