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Got someone in my family with diabetes type I, and we’ve been hearing about the “magical” solution coming “soon” since she was diagnosed with it, in her childhood, around 30 years ago.
As such I’ll keep what I see as a healthy amount of scepticism towards this piece of news.
Like somebody else here said, it isn’t because these magics aren’t viable. It’s just more profitable to fleece sick people with treatments than it is to cure them.
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Thats fair enough.
ABC Australia is actually a proper news site (its Government owned). If it came from Murdoch media (which is 90% of Aussie media), I’d be more skeptical, but ABC generally does a respectable job.
That being said, hope for your family member it does work (obviously, science is never 100%)
Throw it on the pile of solutions we’ll never have because the treatment is more profitable than the cure.
So they’re repurposing surviving pancreas cells to produce insulin like the destroyed beta cells used to, but what are they doing about the autoimmune response? Will my immune system just kill the new insulin-producing cells as well?
Presumably not, since the repurposed cells won’t have the same surface antigens that the immune system targets for destruction.
That’s promising but also very, very early development. It’s too early for the hype and such headlines. This treatment still have to succeed in preclinical trials, then multiple clinical trials.
The research is still in its early days and the next step will be pre-clinical animal trials.
It’d be great if proven effective, but most treatment as this stage of development fail because they’re either ineffective in human trials, or have bad side effects. A small minority succeeds and improve patients life.
