A Patient With Diabetes No Longer Needs Insulin After Receiving A Bioengineered “Pancreas”
“A year after receiving a new type of islet cell transplant to treat her severe diabetes, a patient continues to do well and no longer needs insulin injections to manage her disease.
Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time. If a treatment only works temporarily, it has little chance of making a significant difference in the lives of patients, which is why the latest news from the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute is so exciting.
A year after transplanting insulin-producing islet cells into the omentum of a woman with a particularly unwieldy form of type 1 diabetes, the cells continue to operate as hoped. She no longer needs to receive insulin via injections or an insulin pump and is in good health…”
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I think bromine, like in bread kills pancreas B cells. We have stem cells everywhere I think and can someday learn to regrow our pancreas b cells, or learn how to not kill them to begin with
That would make life easier for some of us
That is such wonderful news you share Wasim Muklashy. Hope for so many !
shonie Hutter Thanks so much Shonie. Yeah, we’ve been getting SOOOOOO much bad news out here over the past year that I’ve made it a point to try to share some of the good stuff that is happening and the amazing stuff that people are doing. Trying to balance out some of the negativity, which is probably why you’ve seen so many science/sustainability posts from me lately. Just my way of trying to remind people that good stuff is happening too…
Wasim Muklashy I shared this news with my 13yr old grandson who was diagnosed diabetic 1 a year ago. He had asked at the time if there would be a way to reverse it and we had to say ~~not at the moment~~~How much hope this has given to a young boy with all his life ahead of him…..Thank you for the gift of being able to share this news with him ~~~Bless you !!.
shonie Hutter Oh my gosh, it’s SOOOOOOO good to hear that this sort of stuff can help bring hope to someone close to you. Yes, there is a LOT of amazing stuff happening in the med-tech world, and a lot of it has to do with revolutionary approaches to diabetes and cancer. All the research and work and technology is beginning to bear fruit. Have your grandson hang in there, there’s neato stuff going on these days!