Boston Children's reverses type 1 diabetes in mice

Researchers at Boston Children ’s Hospital are looking to begin clinical trials on a treatment that has the potential to cure type 1 diabetes using a patients own blood cells. Researchers from the hospital said they successfully used the treatment to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice. All the mice were cured of diabetes in the s hort term, and a third of the mice were cured for the duration of their lives. The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine. “There’s…
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