• Smeagol666@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days ago

      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.

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    2 days ago

    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…