Source: Evening Standard
Date: 10 April 2007
Summary:
The Evening Standard reports on a new study using patients' own bone marrow stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes:
"Scientists revealed findings of a study which shows that 15 young patients with type one diabetes overcame their dependence on insulin after being treated with their own stem cells. A team of US and Brazilian scientists gave the patients powerful drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by injections of stem cells drawn from their own blood. And so far, one patient has been free of insulin dependency for 35 months."
