In a 1st, scientists reversed type 1 diabetes by reprogramming a person’s own fat cells

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In a 1st, scientists reversed type 1 diabetes by reprogramming a person’s own fat cells

For the first time, scientists in China reprogrammed a woman’s fat cells to turn them into insulin-making pancreatic cells that reversed her type 1 diabetes.

The feat adds to a growing body of evidence that reprogrammed stem cells could one day be used to treat or cure the chronic disease. The patient treated in the recent study still doesn’t need any injected insulin a year out from her procedure.

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