Decades in pursuit of a diabetes cure | Penn Medicine Shaping the future of health care Penn Medicine’s 200-year history is marked by a legacy of monumental medical breakthroughs Today, Penn is known for developing the first cell and gene therapies that cure cancer and reverse blindness, inventing mRNA vaccine technology that quelled the COVID-19 pandemic, discovering key insights about the immune system and health, and more
One in 100 diabetes mellitus patients cured: Confirmation by . . . It had been previously believed that Japanese patients with diabetes exhibited a lower incidence of remission than Western patients, leading to the perception that "there is no cure for diabetes " The findings of this study provide new insights by revealing that the remission rate in Japanese patients with diabetes is approximately 1 percnt
Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure Now, more than 30 years later, Melton and his colleagues are within sight of a new treatment for Type 1 diabetes that uses stem cells to make healthy insulin-producing cells that can be transplanted into patients Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biomedical company headquartered in Boston, is running clinical trials on methods pioneered by Melton and
Mount Sinai Researchers Move Closer to a Cure for Diabetes In the newest study, the research team reports that the new, regenerated beta cells may be coming from an unexpected source: a second pancreatic cell type called alpha cells Since alpha cells are abundant in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, they may be able to serve as a source for new beta cells in both common types of diabetes
World’s first: stem cell therapy reverses diabetes - PMC According to the American Diabetes Association, 23 6 million adults and children in the country—or 7 8% of the total population—have diabetes 17 9 million people are thought to have been diagnosed with diabetes; nevertheless, 5 7 million people, or over 25% of the population, do not know they have the disease
World-First Stem Cell Treatment Reverses Diabetes for a . . . The procedure was a world first—no other type 1 diabetes patient had been treated with their own cells Two and a half months later, the young woman started producing enough of her own insulin