Source: BBC News
Posted: 11 April 2007, 05:09 GMT 06:09 UK
Summary:
Brazilian and US scientists have used transfusions of patients' own stem cells to reverse type 1 diabetes. The researchers, from the University of Sao Paulo, gave the patients powerful drugs to suppress their immune systems in an attempt to stop further destruction of pancreatic cells, followed by transfusions of stem cells taken from their own blood, in effect designed to restart the immune system.
