• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I know where the State Capitalist Chinese Dictatorship is, but yeah, can’t find the Communist one.

    Hell, they aren’t even fully State Capitalist anymore, they have billionaires.

    Still, if this is true, and widely available, it could be one of the handful of good things done by a bad government. Hell, even if the methods are released for others to improve on, it would be a boon for the world.

    There are close to 2 million children with type 1 diabetes worldwide. And I guess there are like 8 million adults, whatever. Cure the kids, let them not die when someone hands them a candy bar.

    That is, if this works. Type 1 is usually an autoimmune disease. Do doctors first need to cure the autoimmune disease and then give this treatment? If so, then this is just another temporary treatment for now. Possibly in the range of days if the immune response is particularly aggressive.

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      5 days ago

      This was a single case involving type 2 diabetes. Type 1 would need to be approached differently because it can’t be cured by fixing the pancreas. If this therapy does work, perhaps it would still be a boon for T1 patients as a treatment rather than a cure.