# Not a cure, but seems promising **URL:** \ **Category:** D-News\ **Tags:** research, type-1\ **Created:** [July 10, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/not-a-cure-but-seems-promising/15349 "2025-07-10T10:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
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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](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/first-islet-cell-transplant-without-immunosuppression/15441): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/not-a-cure-but-seems-promising/15349)._