Not a cure, but seems promising

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Thanks for the link to Nature’s discussion of this study! Scientific American had an article about that too, which we were discussing over here:

First islet cell transplant without immunosuppression

A very interesting study by a Swedish-American collaboration of researchers was published recently. The focus of this study was islet transplantation without immunosuppression. This is supposedly the first time ever a type 1 diabetes patient successfully received an islet cell transplant without the need for immunosuppression. Instead the donor cells were genetically modified using CRISPR to evade the immune system. This is not a cure yet. The title of this Scientific American article is a bit …