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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] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's promising but also very, very early development. It's too early for the hype and such headlines. This treatment still have to succeed in preclinical trials, then multiple clinical trials.

The research is still in its early days and the next step will be pre-clinical animal trials.

It'd be great if proven effective, but most treatment as this stage of development fail because they're either ineffective in human trials, or have bad side effects. A small minority succeeds and improve patients life.