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A woman from Tianjin, China, recently became the first person to have her type 1 diabetes successfully reversed through a pioneering stem cell procedure...
After the treatment, she shared, "I can eat sugar now," marking a monumental step in diabetes research...
Unlike type 2 diabetes, which is often linked to lifestyle factors, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition where the bodys immune system destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas...
In this case, Chinese researchers used the woman's own stem cells, reprogramming them into insulin-producing islet cells..
Since the woman was already on immunosuppressants due to a previous liver transplant, it remains unclear whether the new islet cells will be affected by the same autoimmune response that caused her diabetes...
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