The innovations that could bring us closer to curing diabetes
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The innovations that could bring us closer to curing diabetes

The Independent  

Diabetes is a disease of our times. In type 1 diabetes, the body’s own immune system attacks special cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. At the time of writing, the French are working on a vaccine for diabetes that would downgrade the body’s enthusiasm to attack its own islet cells and help preserve what little insulin-producing tissue still exists. One advantage of this approach is that if it worked, the cells making insulin would belong to the actual patient and wouldn’t be regarded as alien by the body’s immune system. Over in Belgium, another high-tech startup, Orgenesis, is using a similar approach to persuade the patient’s liver cells to start producing insulin.

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