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Researchers say diabetes treatment breakthrough could lead to end of insulin injections (www.abc.net.au)

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study in question: EZH2 inhibitors promote β-like cell regeneration in young and adult type 1 diabetes donors

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So they're repurposing surviving pancreas cells to produce insulin like the destroyed beta cells used to, but what are they doing about the autoimmune response? Will my immune system just kill the new insulin-producing cells as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Presumably not, since the repurposed cells won’t have the same surface antigens that the immune system targets for destruction.