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diabetes If everything goes well, the day is not far when diabetes will no longer be an incurable disease. You will not have to worry about controlling it. Chinese scientists have done such a miracle. For the first time in the world, a patient's diabetes has been cured through cell therapy. A team from Shanghai's Changzheng Hospital and the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai's Renji Hospital has achieved this feat. This research was published in the Cell Discovery Journal on April 30.
of a 59 year old patient suffering from diabetes The first time treatment was done, He has been suffering from type-2 diabetes for the last 25 years. He also underwent a kidney transplant in 2017. Most of his pancreatic islets were not functioning. The pancreas controls blood sugar levels. Due to which he had to take multiple injections of insulin every day.
This is the cure
The patient underwent an innovative cell transplant in July 2021. After 11 weeks, he no longer required exogenous insulin. Medication to control blood sugar levels was also gradually reduced and completely discontinued after a year. He was followed up after transplant, which found that his pancreatic islet function was working well. After about 33 months, the patient was relieved of insulin.
Insulin is needed to control blood sugar levels, which is done by the pancreas. When a person is affected by diabetes, this system fails to function. Due to this, insulin cannot be produced or used properly. Scientists around the world are exploring islet transplantation, an option to create islet-like cells from human stem cells. Now Chinese scientists have achieved great success in this. If everything goes well, the day is not far when diabetes can be cured.