A real cure for type 1 diabetes?Interesting advance ... cautious

Today we share a news that undoubtedly attracts attention and generates illusion, but that also should be taken with some prudence.The researcher Ekaterine Berishvili and her team at the University of Geneva are developing a "cell home", a bio -artificial structure designed to restore natural insulin production in people with type 1 diabetes.

The idea is fascinating: to create a safe environment where to house new Islets of Langerhans, protected from the immune system, which could be implemented under the skin and responsible for producing insulin autonomously.All this avoiding the need for multiple donors and life immunosuppression.

However, although it sounds like a great advance, it is not the first time that we read similar news in the press.Often these projects promise a lot in their initial phases, but then face technical difficulties, lack of financing or simply do not translate into accessible treatments for patients.

From the forum we want to share this news because it is important to know what is being investigated, but we also want to be realistic: for now, insulin remains our only available treatment.

💬 What do you think?

Do you think you are a hopeful advance or think, like many, that these holders generate expectations that are not met?

Would you like to talk more about these issues with a realistic vision, without falling into the "clickbait"?

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Jo, if that could come true, it would be amazing.But it is true that many things of this type come out that then stay at all.In any case, it is fine to know about them.

When I debuted in 86 in addition to all the chaos that it supposed, someone gave me a book on diabetes, in which there were already close solutions or at least talk about the great possibilities that the future would give us in relation to the DM1 ... almost 40 years later, we have heard, read and seen the same hopes ... but we will continue waiting, I would never doubt the people who investigate, I would like to encourage them.

Thanks to everyone who tries to help.

That's what the forum is for, right?To share our doubts, experiences and also advances in diabetes research.