Source: The Times
Date: April 11, 2007
Summary:
The Times reports on a new stem cell trial using adult stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes that has yielded encouraging results:
"Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again. In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood. The results show that insulin-dependent diabetics can be freed from reliance on needles by an injection of their own stem cells."
