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1. Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 02:46:43 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
   She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant
   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03129-3
   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664199

   * 25 y.o. woman w. type 1 diabetes
   * started producing own insulin <3 mo after receiving transplant of reprogrammed stem cells
   * 1st person w. T1D disease to be treated using cells extracted f. her own body
   * “I can eat sugar now” said the woman

   #disease #diabetes #T1D #StemCells

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 02:47:12 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     @persagen wonderful news. Science rocks 👍