tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472921328078253036.post7124832994826103942..comments2024-01-27T19:53:22.965-08:00Comments on Current Research into Cures for Type-1 Diabetes: Possible Cures for Type-1 in the News (December)Joshua Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05300553471793001620noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472921328078253036.post-18337572591756180852018-04-02T23:51:10.166-07:002018-04-02T23:51:10.166-07:00http://www.jdrf.org/blog/2017/05/17/cell-conversio...http://www.jdrf.org/blog/2017/05/17/cell-conversion-change-better/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05365346750266974256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472921328078253036.post-69804209157811310142017-12-21T19:45:56.228-08:002017-12-21T19:45:56.228-08:00Beta cells may be 3D printed and transplanted - Ro...Beta cells may be 3D printed and transplanted - Royal Adelaide Hospital trialing it.tpiperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03795820225881449744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472921328078253036.post-71559546268041157722017-12-17T04:27:47.900-08:002017-12-17T04:27:47.900-08:00All immunological approaches to curing type 1 diab...All immunological approaches to curing type 1 diabetes look like a waste of time, money, and scarce resources to me, since beta cells don't spontaneously regrow to any clinically significant degree after immunosuppression, and it is not known how to make them regrow after the autoimmune attack is suspended. So, a perfect immunosuppression would just be a mirco-first step, as the tens of thousands of type 1 diabetics who have been under extreme immunosuppression for organ transplants without escaping their diabetes show. (Immunosuppression has to be massive in the period immediately after organ transplant or to counter periods of acute rejection, and yet this has never done anything to restore pancreatic function in the many, many type 1 diabetics who have undergone this.} Immunosuppression, if a way to stimulate the re-growth of beta cells cannot be found, will simply be a dead-end, and I suspect many people in M.D.-Ph.D. programs are toying around with it because the methods are familiar and simple and thus an easy way to the degree, rather than because they feel they will succeed. It would be more sensible to research methods to stimulate beta cell regrowth, since if this can be made to work, the door would be opened to making immunosuppressive research worthwhile.Oscarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02915452402029137589noreply@blogger.com