Scientists in Shanghai achieved a historic breakthrough after successfully eliminating a long-term patient’s type 2 diabetes through a pioneering cell therapy treatment.

Key points:

The 59-year-old patient of 25 years received a transplant of pancreatic cells derived from his own stem cells in 2021. He is now insulin independent.

This marks the world’s first successful use of stem cell-derived islet transplantation to cure diabetes.

The achievement, published on Cell Discovery on April 30, comes after over a decade of research at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-scientists-cure-diabetes-using-205304771.html