• bunkyprewster@startrek.website
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    7 months ago

    But there’s a tradeoff. The patients, however, require immune-suppressing drugs for life, so that the immune system doesn’t destroy the cells.

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    The 36-year-old nurse and mother is part of a small, but what some call “milestone study,” of patients with Type 1 Diabetes using manufactured stem cells, designed to grow in the liver and become the full array of pancreatic islet cells that naturally control blood sugar levels.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.