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New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman with type-1 diabetes was successfully treated by scientists in China with her own stem cells..
This is the first instance in the world where type 1 diabetes was reversed, as her cells started producing insulin on their own with stem cell therapy...
A positive result was noticed just 75 days after the pancreatic stem cell transplant, according to a study published in the science journal Cell on 25 September...
In contrast, type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks the insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas leading to failure in its production...
The authors attributed the womans insulin independence to her ability to produce insulin naturally with these reprogrammed islet cells, an ability she has maintained even a year after the transplant...
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