techniques involving immunosuppression are not breakthroughs. Immunosuppression alone is enough to reverse type 1 diabetes, it's an auto-immune disease.
But obliterating the immune system has more risks consequences than insulin treatment, so it's never done in practice..
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Smeagol666@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 15d
I read an article months ago that they had already achieved this in China.
As a diabetic myself, I say "OK good", but living in this dystopian hellscape, do I think I will live long enough to benefit from this? Probably not.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 14 pts · 15d
That was for type 2, this is for type 1. Which is a lot of hopeful news.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 15d
The posted article does address Peking University's achievement, and the same treatment working in the US.
It's a bit weird how it's 'a world first' in the US though.
johnefrancis@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 14d
techniques involving immunosuppression are not breakthroughs. Immunosuppression alone is enough to reverse type 1 diabetes, it's an auto-immune disease.
But obliterating the immune system has more risks consequences than insulin treatment, so it's never done in practice..