Diabetes can finally be cured permanently!

[u/Negative_1by12_aura]

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[u/benjamelonCM]

This makes no sense. T2D don’t suffer from low insulin production. Also, for T1D, we’ve known for a while how to make beta cells from stem cells. What we need to figure out is how to stop the immune system of T1D patients from trying to destroy them. 

T2D is an insulin receptor disorder. T1D is an auto immune disease. Neither problems are solved by pancreatic stem cells. 

[u/MargaritaKid → u/benjamelonCM]

This is one of the million "see what awesome thing China is doing that the US isn't" posts on Reddit

[u/Iguana_Enthusiast → u/MargaritaKid]

And it works. It gets thousands of upvotes... Might be botted as well, but it's still working.

[u/couldbeahumanbean → u/MargaritaKid]

50¢ army filling the void left by the blown up Russian trollbot farms

[u/BurdTurglary → u/benjamelonCM]

Sensationalized text above two stock photos is misleading?! Well i never...

[u/Restart_from_Zero → u/BurdTurglary]

Pretty sure "in mice" was supposed to be in there somewhere, too.

[u/wterrt → u/Restart_from_Zero]

"temporarily until the body rejects the cells" too, last time I heard about this anyway.

[u/GainDelicious1894 → u/BurdTurglary]

At least the girl looks pretty and smart! 

[u/d3vilmaycryalot → u/GainDelicious1894]

Hold my Huang!

[u/EvenBroaderBand → u/benjamelonCM]

T2D isn't one single illness some T2D are resistant to insulin while others produce reduced amounts of it.

T1: Can't product insulin because immune system kills the cells that produce it.

T2: Body becomes resistant to insulin or the body produces lower amounts of insulin for reasons different from T1.

Type 2 is basically "Anything other than Type 1".

Is good example of why we listen to actual experts and not just random redditors, good job the voting system is doing its job and this is downvoted to oblivi.....oh it has 600 upvotes.

[u/CauliflowerBig2311 → u/EvenBroaderBand]

Type 2 is basically "Anything other than Type 1".

This kinda has been changing. My daughter was diagnosed as type 3C. However, treatment is the same as type 2 and it's not every healthcare provider that understand what 3C means, so usually we just say she has type 2...

[u/Unsold_Leave → u/benjamelonCM]

As a T1D myself, I have come to realize that the world was done a major disservice by both conditions being named nearly the same thing. They're so different, and about 90% of the population only knows the bare bones basics of specifically T2. The number of times I get told to "Just diet and exercise better". Brother I run marathons and eat an extremely self-restricted diet. My pancreas is non-functional.

[u/StaplerUnicycle → u/benjamelonCM]

I've been a T1 diabetic for more than 40years.

If seen/heard this line thousands of time over the years.

[u/Yangoose → u/StaplerUnicycle]

Remember like 20 years ago when lettuce was gonna cure T1?

https://www.diabetesincontrol.com/lettuce-may-be-the-next-big-diabetes-treatment/

[u/just_a_person_maybe → u/StaplerUnicycle]

Just five more years, right?

[u/NotAzakanAtAll → u/StaplerUnicycle]

Looked into it.

This time a few diabetics who this was tested on has lived without any treatment for over a year. So if that's true it's something.

[u/GardeniaInMyHair → u/NotAzakanAtAll]

If T1D was actually cured, we'd be hearing it from my sister's endocrinologist, not a Reddit post. Millions have been waiting for a cure, and if true, it would have spread like wildfire. The T1D community has been pretty quiet. So I'm going with a no on this one. Logic.

[u/nevicar_ → u/benjamelonCM]

T2D is often a composite of resistance and reduced production of insulin. It isn't always a clean clinical picture.

As for T1D, it depends if the new stems cells have different MHC proteins or some way to obfuscate T cell recognition pathway for the target beta cells. I dont know anything about this news from china so cant tell if its gonna work that way.

[u/Evignity → u/benjamelonCM]

Anytime you hear a bombastic scientific claim, wait for the peer-reviews.

It's like that time S.Koreans said they had made room-temperature superconductors. It was on world-news for days if not weeks before getting disproven.

[u/basicnecromancycr → u/benjamelonCM]

Some stock photos and a text make no sense after all. No source etc. given.

[u/C_Bergnaum → u/benjamelonCM]

Late-stage type 2 can eventually burn out the pancreas from overproducing insulin to compensate for resistance, which is usually when they become insulin-dependent. But calling it a flat out "permanent cure" for both types in general pop headlines is definitely massive overselling.

[u/Facerolla_1337 → u/benjamelonCM]

T1 and T2 are not that cut and dry. T2 for example can be as a result of damage to the pancreas (either trauma or from diet abuse) and can still produce a tiny amount of insulin. It may have nothing to do with a receptor disorder, otherwise direct insulin injections wouldn't work...

[u/angilnibreathnach → u/benjamelonCM]

A pancreas transplant can restore normal glucose functioning so I suppose this works in the same way.

[u/Worms_blink → u/angilnibreathnach]

Yes but you need immuno-suppressive drugs for life, otherwise the same thing happens and your beta cells get destroyed by the immune system and the T1 diabetes is back.

Current research is looking at somehow isolating beta cells from the immune system, eg through implanting them in hydrogels and injecting the whole thing into the patient.

[u/Drfilthymcnasty → u/benjamelonCM]

Over the time type 2’s beta cells burnout and there insulin output decreases over time.

[u/New_Response_7488 → u/benjamelonCM]

People keep mixing up insulin resistance with insulin deficiency. T1D and T2D have very different underlying mechanisms, so treating them as the same problem misses the whole point.

[u/Negative_1by12_aura]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11662597/

[u/Nax_Jello → u/Negative_1by12_aura]

These are trials not cure , your post is misleading no cure has been made till now ,only trials have been done on few people, these are trials result were published in 2024 , and u are posting these in 2026

pls dont give false hope to people suffering from this disease , trials takes years to became a cure in real life , its a offcouse a positive step but not cure

[u/SemiAnonymousTeacher → u/Negative_1by12_aura]

This just sites three other studies... only ONE of which was from China. So why is only China mentioned in this Twitter post (rhetorical question- I know why)? Also, why not mention the dozens of similar studies using stem cells from before 2024? Universities in the US, UK, and India have all done this.

[u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

I thought type II has insulin resistance. Not the problem of producing insulin (at least not the root problem).

Anyway, thanks for sourcing the paper

Edits, typo

[u/lemoinem → u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

I wouldn't trust not expect a Twitter screenshot to deal with accuracy or nuances.

[u/AppropriateDraft5039 → u/lemoinem]

Too late, already dumped all my metformin in the trash and sucking back a bottle of maple syrup.

[u/SomeDumbDoggo → u/lemoinem]

its almost like uninformed people make uninformed takes lol. There's a reason we say "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read"

[u/smoothoperator_64290 → u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

Diabetes is a complicated condition, type 2 diabetes is exactly that. Insulin hyper resistance. Your pancreas responds by making more insulin. Over time this can stress the pancreas to the point where it can actually start to produce less insulin to the point of cessation. Type 2 Diabetics can become insulin dependent just like a Type 1 Diabetic. Type 1 Diabetes is primarily an autoimmune disorder where the immune system actually destroys the insulin producing cells very early in their life cycle before they can do their job. There are multiple other types of Diabetes as well beyond Gestational Diabetes which is the other form most people are familiar with.

[u/The_Reset_Button → u/smoothoperator_64290]

I have what looks like type 2 but is actually caused by a genetic mitochondrial mutation called "Maternally Inherited Diabetes and Deafness", or MIDD. You can also have MODY (Mature onset Diabetes of the young)

Basically if you have diabetes it just means you cannot control your blood sugar. Type 1 and type 2 don't describe how you got it but how it presents in a person

[u/FourDimensionalTaco → u/The_Reset_Button]

Some people actually have suggested to rename type 1 and 2 to better emphasize how vastly different they actually are. It is like calling two hugely different skin conditions very similar names just because both produce a red rash.

[u/Dominotter → u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

Type 2 is a combination of insulin resistance and inadequate insulin production. This would only help with the latter part. Production generally worsens over time with T2 and some people get close to the Type 1's total loss of insulin production.

[u/nelrond18 → u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

I was just gonna comment the same thing. Would be cool if you could reset insulin resistance

[u/polopolo05 → u/nelrond18]

GLP1s, they can actually put DM2 into a "remission". like a reset. If you can change metabolic pathways in the dna that increase the likelyhood of DM2.... then you can cure it. Some families are more prone to it.

[u/gottagotothebathroom → u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

And with Type 1, the body's immune system would kill these cells off and stop insulin production again, which is what happens the first time.

[u/R_Prime]

Let’s see how unaffordable the powers that be decide to make it.

[u/Fooligoo → u/R_Prime]

It’s China, not US. If China can’t make it affordable, nobody can.

[u/CaptainSebT → u/Fooligoo]

Every single post on medical breakthroughs people like "Let's see how unaffordable they make it" just have better healthcare.

Because like I'm in Canada if someone cures diabetes you know Canada will do everything in there power to get every suitable patient to take the cure. You know because otherwise they front the bill over an entire life time.

[u/Winter_Success2909 → u/CaptainSebT]

Insulin was first discovered in Canada and they gave to US out of his goodwill, ended up being this cluster fuck.

[u/CaptainSebT → u/Winter_Success2909]

For the US. In Canada the yearly cost is much lower. I think the government should cover it but regardless it's much lower.

[u/Spore_goblin → u/R_Prime]

Not the whole world is USA

[u/Glittering_Gene8388 → u/R_Prime]

No they'll let some American drug company patent it for use here

[u/Ambitious-Company-56 → u/Glittering_Gene8388]

And make sure, who need it can't afford it.

[u/bro_tz → u/R_Prime]

Only USA is doing that kind of shit. Others countries try their best to give affordable healthcare to people.

[u/redspadesX → u/R_Prime]

See if china is actually capable of doing this and it's not just another smoke and mirrors act

[u/deviantdevil80 → u/redspadesX]

This right here... 99% of the "China did X" is all crap that never goes anywhere, ever...

[u/CautiousEmergency367 → u/R_Prime]

I'm guessing you're American?

[u/Nondescriptish → u/R_Prime]

Big Pharma will buy the patents and kill it. Cures are bad for business.

[u/SVlad_667 → u/Nondescriptish]

China doesn't give a damn about American patents. But if the stupid American Laowai wants a patent - China will send him a patent from Temu.

[u/Rhorge]

Any source on that? Pancreas damage is one thing, but type 1 is an autoimmune disease and I don’t see how stem cells can alter the behaviour of all white blood cells

Edit: after a brief read, the cells created by the treatment are generally located in the liver and other abdominal organs, hence the efficacy in type 1 patients.

[u/Fooligoo → u/Rhorge]

This might help: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11662597/

[u/Rhorge → u/Fooligoo]

Thanks, looks interesting

[u/Expert-Tea9960 → u/Fooligoo]

I feel like they didnt really talk about the science behind it, they talked about cases where it happened and i don‘t even think they were the ones doing it, just writing about it. Theme looks interesting enough though, i‘ll probsbly google it later, thank you anyway

[u/Dominotter → u/Rhorge]

I also don't think anyone has had the treatment yet that wasn't also on immune system suppression.

[u/RadicalSoda_ → u/Rhorge]

It's gene therapy essentially

[u/AlbertSciencestein → u/RadicalSoda_]

No, it’s cell therapy. The man-made beta cells are injected into the abdomen, and these cells produce insulin. Gene therapy would involve changing the person’s genes within their body, and this isn’t that.

[u/karma_the_sequel]

Link to a credible source or it didn’t happen.

[u/Gold-Public-1335 → u/karma_the_sequel]

There's a pixelated image of a biomolecule, a scientist, and a medical personnel with stethoscope. Therefore it is true. Duh

[u/LivingFrosting6680 → u/Gold-Public-1335]

This is the Chinese media hype cycle. “China does X scientific miracle”, then everyone glazes China (and shits on America for no reason), then nothing ever comes of it because it was all made up in the first place.

Bonus points if there’s actually a source like a scientific paper that everyone just takes for granted, but later turns out to be completely false and irreproducible. People think if it’s in a scientific paper it must be true, but that’s not the goal in science. The goal is for other scientists and engineers to be able to actually make use of the information, which requires it to be true in the first place.

[u/PossiblyAsian → u/karma_the_sequel]

truly the death of reddit

this post is facebook boomer type shit I see on facebook all the time

[u/TryNice304]

Again, no source no link. Not sure if this is true. 🤦

[u/LogoPro_15]

Partly true, but "cured permanently" goes too far. The post is based on real Chinese research from 2024, but each result came from a single patient.
What actually happened
Type 1: A 25-year-old woman from Tianjin has not needed insulin injections for more than a year after receiving a stem cell transplant using her own reprogrammed cells. The Peking University team published the paper in Cell.
Type 2: A separate group in Shanghai transplanted insulin-producing islets into the liver of a 59-year-old man with type 2 diabetes, and he has since stopped taking insulin.
Why it's not a cure yet
That's one patient for each type, followed for a year or a few years. No one knows yet if the cells keep working for life.
In type 1, the body's immune system is what destroyed the insulin cells to begin with. The transplanted islets could still be targeted for destruction by the immune system. The type 1 patient was already taking immune-suppressing drugs because of an earlier liver transplant, so her case may not apply to most patients.
None of this is approved or available to the public.
The furthest-along option is Vertex's zimislecel, tested in the US and other countries. It enabled 83 per cent of trial participants to stop using insulin entirely within a year of receiving the full dose, but the patients also received immunosuppressive therapy to prevent the body from attacking the newly introduced islet cells. That trial also was limited by its small cohort, and a larger trial is now underway.
Bottom line: this is real and promising progress. A permanent cure that most diabetics can actually get is still likely years away.
Sources:
Live Science: Type 1 reversed using reprogrammed fat cells
Tec Science: Stem cells reverse diabetes
The Week: Zimislecel trial results
Business Today: Zimislecel in NEJM

[u/djquu → u/LogoPro_15]

Finally some sources, had to scroll way too much for these. Thank you.

[u/writingpracticeman → u/LogoPro_15]

I have a coworker who had an islet cell transplant as a part of a study out of the University of Chicago. What she has to go through is, honestly, not much better than just living with T1D. Apparently some of the other study members just said fuck it and (under medical supervision) stopped taking their anti rejection meds which just results in having T1D again.

So it's a cure, but it's still not much better vis quality of life.

[u/lightweight65]

Diabetes is a very very very very very long way from being cured.

[u/jeroenwtf → u/lightweight65]

Five years from now!

[u/Fake__Fake → u/jeroenwtf]

Every year!

[u/Sunstuffer]

Is it real though? Where's the conclusive study?

[u/forgotten_rhyme28]

Can't wait to never hear about this again

[u/DrManhattansTaint]

“In China” sure bud. Sure.

[u/Dull_Corgi_5044]

Bs. I hear they can fly too

[u/lovelaughlexapro]

The truth is China makes wild claims about advancements they make in just about everything while in actuality are cutting costs/corners everywhere and are only concerned with optics. I’m doubting how real this is.

[u/Classic_End_6469]

As a type 1 diabetic muthafucka… the first thing I’d do would almost certainty lead to diabetes again…

[u/Mixture-Emotional]

Weird, there's no article explaining what is happening. 

[u/_ECMO_]

How do you reverse Type 2 diabetes by producing insulin again?

[u/Devilpig1]

As an American i can't wait to see how they make it so expensive that only celebrities that don't need it become the only people who can afford it and use the entire supply for some quirk beneficial side effect that they don't really need so the rest of us can just go suffer and die somewhere. 

[u/DrPhilSideSkirts → u/Devilpig1]

If that turns out to be the case. Get your ass over to Europe. The flight + treatment will be cheaper here than staying in the US.

[u/Antique-Resort6160 → u/Devilpig1]

I had a friend recover from severe type 2 diabetes with stem cells.

It's funny because he got stem cell therapy for his knee, he could barely walk and used a cane or wheelchair sometimes.  Walks fine and moves like a younger man now, and stopped injecting insulin.  It's like a miracle cure for $6000 in japan,  30 minutes infusion and decades-long problems healed in a couple weeks.  Wild stuff.

The US regulates the number of stem cells you can get in one infusion, making it very ineffective and crazy expensive if you want multiple treatments.  people with money dont bother, theyve been getting stem cell therapy in mexico, europe, asia, etc for decades already.

[u/thorsten139 → u/Devilpig1]

It's an American problem.

Nobody pays so much for insulin. And as such the price people pay for a permanent cure will be alot lesser than in the states

It's a problem you guys create for yourselves.

[u/Bobthemouse → u/thorsten139]

Well in fairness in this case I think it's mostly the evil rich folk who profit off of suffering that are making this a problem, it's not a societal issue like pretty much everything else wrong with america

[u/stydlivalia → u/Devilpig1]

they'll probably find a way to rebrand it as a wellness injection and charge triple for the aesthetic packaging

[u/SaltyAnimator5229]

Type two diabetes can be put in remission by exercising and losing weight. It’s the high body fat % that makes the body insulin resistant. Meaning you still produce insulin but it does nothing. This isn’t my own words, it’s from an article I read.

[u/_R0Ns_ → u/SaltyAnimator5229]

I know a guy who has type 2 and he is not fat, not even overweight.

[u/Ripley_and_Jones → u/SaltyAnimator5229]

In the early stages yes. Later when the pancreas has totally failed, no.

[u/WorldlinessSevere717 → u/SaltyAnimator5229]

don't think advanced diabetes can be cured by exercise alone, because the beta cells that produce insulin are already dead.

[u/Only8livesleft → u/SaltyAnimator5229]

After years of excess insulin production beta cells can fatigue and die. T2 doesn’t always lead to beta cell death and it’s a different mechanism than T1 but the treatment of regenerating them may be the same

[u/WinForeign2829 → u/SaltyAnimator5229]

What about those with no body fat at all?

[u/Rhowryn → u/WinForeign2829]

Those are called corpses.

[u/scaryguts]

5 more years guys!

[u/Garetht → u/scaryguts]

In the meantime can I interest you in a Facebook post about the cure-all wonders of cinnamon?

[u/enjoyingcatsthankyou]

US company, Vertex, did the exact same thing and published over a year ago https://www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549

[u/Runktar]

Article is bullshit most diabetes is caused by insulin resistance which means the body makes insulin it's just not as effective as it should be. Add this to the list of articles about the things china has done recently including curing cancer cracking cold fusion effective humanoid robots etc etc etc.

[u/suxatjugg → u/Runktar]

What article? OP doesn't even link to anything, it's just some stock pictures 

[u/Sogelink]

I dunno if it would work for me, I lack insulin but while I'm treated like a diabetic, it's just because I lost a few chunks of my pancreas (I'm clumsy).

So it's not that my pancreas isn't working, it's just that I don't have enough of it to live without insulin (or enzymes too). Hope it could work on my case.

[u/the_jdi]

The LUCM (Leiden UMC) in The Netherlands have been doing this for the past 3 years now. The issue as said below is not growing (or transplanting) pancreatic cells but keeping the body from attacking its own cells. Hence the Auto immuno disease thing. They estimate another 8ish years before they can reliably and effectively 'hide' these cells but not 'loose' them in the body. One of the risks of hiding them to well is 'what if they then become cancerous and he don't know how to find them'-worries.

There is still a lot do to but progress is there.

For more information Nijhoff, M.F and Koning, E.J.P. d research papers.

https://www.diabetesfonds.nl/onderzoeken/nieuwe-eilandjes-van-langerhans-uit-stamcellen-maken

https://www.diabetesfonds.nl/onderzoek/diabetes-type-1/onderzoek-naar-genezing-van-diabetes-type-1/met-cure-one-werken-we-aan

[u/imtiredofthisgrampaX]

Google the article. It's not as clean as this stupid post makes it sound.

[u/SickboyJason]

The fact this has 7k upvotes is scary.

[u/maple7531]

I thought type 2 patients still make insulin?

[u/Mixture-Emotional]

Bullshit

[u/jonis_tones]

China if you make this happen COVID19 will be forgiven.

[u/Pixi_nightingal]

for or 5+ year i am hearing same things

[u/khoawala]

Here's for those braindead who have been too mentally conditioned with "china bad" narrative:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11662597/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-medical-team-enables-30-092400922.html

The real news is China did reverse type 1 diabetes where the body can produce insulin again and patients have been going for over a year now without insulin injection.

[u/lithium142 → u/khoawala]

tell me you have no idea what type 1 diabetes is without telling me you have no idea.

thats a fine solution for type 2. it does fuckall to "cure" type 1 since type 1 is an autoimmune disorder. you can treat the insulin issues all you want, until you can reverse the autoimmune issue, they will need lifelong treatment. So all this is doing is replacing a cheap, self managed treatment, to an expensive one they have to regularly go to the hospital to have administered.

maybe people would have a higher opinion of the chinese state if they'd stop pushing these false narratives

[u/Enterovirus71 → u/khoawala]

First paper is a couple of indians? Also how many times are you going to spam this wumao

[u/BeefistPrime → u/khoawala]

I want to upvote you because you brought a source, but I want to downvote you because you were a massive asshole for no reason towards people who doubted an out of context, unsourced tweet about a medical cure

[u/asmogeus → u/khoawala]

Now post the actual research paper and not a letter

[u/Yossarian216 → u/khoawala]

There’s a human trial going on right now in the US that has also seemingly cured type one diabetes, don’t know if it’s the same treatment as China. The US one is a new anti-rejection drug that lets patients keep the islet cells that produce insulin without causing the secondary damage that typical anti-rejection drugs cause.

[u/Josniff3021orwhat → u/khoawala]

china bad

[u/SpendPerfect5933 → u/khoawala]

That’s the claim. The key issue is whether stem cell treatment has to be regular or is a one time process. If the former it’s meaningless as stem cell therapy is more expensive than insulin injections.

[u/Renard_Fou]

Its China, so take the legitimacy and viability with a grain of salt

[u/Jojofan_lol → u/Renard_Fou]

All of that translates to “my country/economic block rivals China economically so I have to tag along with the hate train”

[u/CrawlerCharles → u/Jojofan_lol]

I mean in the last 10 years how many “breakthroughs” have China had in medical science that haven’t gone anywhere at all because it’s just a sensationalized article. China has cured cancer every year for the last decade … yet

[u/Superseaslug]

I will believe it when they can give results. So many things China has claimed and not produced.

[u/hare-hound]

Uh not saying Chinese medical development is better or worse than the US, but if the US had managed to relax from pearl clutching to allow stem cell research and was supportive enough of medical research enough to pull this off, this still would have gotten buried by Big Pharma. The insulin costs (and rate and severity of diabetes) here is astounding. Absolutely despicable. For profit medical systems are evil.

So just want to point of how there are multiple layers of culture and science and politics that allowed this to happen.

[u/OnodrimOfYavanna → u/hare-hound]

The US doesn't pearl clutch about stems cells, and hasn't for years, and therapies like this ar developed in the US constantly 

[u/lithium142]

claiming they've reversed both type 1 and type 2 with the same thing tells you all you need to know about the legitimacy of this lol. anybody with type 1 will immediately know this is bullshit

[u/ChemistryFan29 → u/lithium142]

Um it is possible with using stem cells to recreate pancreatic cells that can produce insulin then it is very possible to treat T1D, or if you regrow cells that have functional receptors to insulin then it is possible to cure type 2.

But turning stem cells into other cells is tricky. And very hard to do

[u/lithium142 → u/ChemistryFan29]

recreating pancreatic cells doesnt stop the body from killing them again. type 1 is an autoimmune disorder. until you fix that, the absolute best this does is replace self-managing insulin with regular trips to the hospital for this treatment. that is not a cure.

Modern passive management systems for diabetics allow them to live nearly normal lives these days. This would replace that with regular trips to the hospital for treatment. and that's BEST case scenario, and assuming it's not dramatically overstated like these "cures" always are.

type 1s have seen these papers come and go for decades. this has all the telltale hallmarks of yet another "cure". The biggest being the lumping of type 2 and type 1 together. They arent similar

[u/SingularityII]

Best part about this - I won't have to hear my father-in-law say "well, I got the diabee-dahs" anymore.

[u/islobojono]

But t2 can make insulin just fine though?

[u/iPLAYiRULE]

where is the source article or study, OP?

[u/Pablo_Hassan]

Is there a link to this somewhere.

[u/Wide_Guitar_3558]

k, remind me in 10 years

[u/Pablo_Hassan]

dec24. I would think we would know more if it worked in the long run

[u/ShortRub7942]

Source: trust me dude

[u/BlobbBlobbson]

Source?

[u/DingbatMcgeee]

Go get your Chinese vaccine thingy then

[u/mysmmx]

Great I’ll be dead by the time they release it for T2s. Great for future gen’s though!

[u/Mental-Article-4117]

Coming to the US for only 10 low payments of $10.4M with insurance!!!! Yayyyyy

[u/BigJJsWillie]

Fuck yes, I'm gonna go buy myself a family size pack of super stuft oreos right this second!!!

[u/Bulky_Midnight8238]

Uhm.. thats not how type 2 works. Type 2 is an inability by the body to take in n process insulin

[u/ECHELON619]

*In rat models*

Is how this always goes.

[u/TheWesternDevil]

Yay! Another cure for something horrible that us Americans will never be able to afford! Yay!

[u/mrbeck1]

Bullshit.

[u/safzb]

Fatties will eat so much sugar they’ll invent type 3 diabetes

[u/AlfredoCustard]

US: that will be 30k and your insurance wont cover it

[u/Temporary-Sound-6810]

I have to take in large quantities of ice cream because my body doesn’t produce enough of it on its own. 

[u/Evening_Bag_7335]

Theres no money to made in a cure. What's the rub?

[u/Status-Guarantee-210]

lets keep them away from anything that flies or has a motor

[u/Windfade]

Did they also cure all cancers and use stemcells to reverse gender expression overnight?

[u/Oldnbold22]

I hope Chinese IQ can help humanity a lot this century. Other high IQ groups have only sought to profit from humanity in the past. 

[u/Schuperman161616]

It will only stay in China, maybe Russia and Iran if they're lucky. No way in hell will the US allow a billion dollar disease disappear and will also sanction other countries that don't subscribe to the business model.

[u/Sykolewski]

Major W thanks to science

[u/ReactionComplete4219]

creating hope is dangerous

[u/omar1593]

Did the mice win or is it human this time ?

[u/Biggu5Dicku5]

I don't think this is true...

[u/Animosity1127]

I could have sworn I saw a post saying China did that years ago.

[u/Basic_Young538]

Anazing

[u/RealDeadShift]

Conservatives: "Yeah? And whose gonna pay for it? NOT ME!"

[u/NicottiZ]

Even if they can make new beta cells for producing insulin, that doesn't cure type 1. They have to insure the immune system doesn't attack the new cells.

[u/ActInternational5010]

How many Nvidia chips for this?

[u/gthing]

Diabetes has famously been cured like once a month for the last 20 years.

[u/Mikelitoris88]

lol what is this garbage ? The statements are ami scentific and why tf does it look like a meme ?

[u/LeftAndRightAreWrong]

The biggest block for stem cells is that pharma can’t make money from it.

[u/Super-Sally-Pants-21]

Fantastic....now let's put some tariffs on that shit

[u/BeefistPrime]

These are always bullshit. If not pure bullshit, they're taken out of context by an ignorant public, like, we have one effective treatment in rat and pigs that still has 15 steps to go until it's an actual medicine in humans and it will likely fail one of those steps. You guys believe everything and then make a conspiracy out of it when the bullshit you believed didn't come to fruition

[u/Mobile-Bag-4873]

wow

[u/LilyTheCatLover_]

All good but I cant see the source

[u/rufos_adventure]

there was a place in canada doing this ten years ago. maybe edmonton? i don't remember for sure.

[u/Oldmonsterschoolgood]

This is like the 40th “cure” people have come up with

[u/deepledribitz]

Omg now solve pmos

[u/Adventurous_Touch342]

And the therapy will be only a billion dollars in US (and almost free anywhere else in the world).

[u/cute_v1ruz]

Now you see it, now its gone

[u/mrbasedballed]

I'd like one ticket to China please!

[u/Squirty42069]

Type 1 here:

Doubt it, but it'd be cool. I've been hearing the same headline, over and over, every single year.

[u/minervascats]

Link?

[u/Possible_Bee_3464]

Stem cells in the sense extract from bone marrow.

[u/ksg20031223]

BUt aT WhAT cOSt?

[u/Longer---Donger]

Looks like Chinese virus

[u/MorganPerson1966]

Until we see a big bold heading in every leading newspaper on the planet - this is all hogwash. There’s a cure invented every year. Anyone TRULY curing Diabetes will be an earth shattering news given the sheer number of human beings this will impact. The news wont be a one time bruahaha - but constantly reinforced for months - given how massive this will be.

Its why I take these announcements with skepticism

[u/humanreporting4duty]

So we could have been researching this for 25 years if we had just approved stem cell research…

[u/Accurate_Ad_3233]

I find your lack of sources...disturbing.

[u/TwisterSinister]

This news is two years old; the real question is when it will actually see widespread use.

[u/Effective-Dig-7091]

and how is the the generos donator ??? is he a doctor or prisoner? science without humanity is cruelty!!!!

[u/Professor-Stark]

No you will not see this in market, the funding for this research will be stopped and in worst case these scientists could disappear. This has happened before with cancer cure. Diabetes is a leading money making business as patient have to take medicine everyday for their life. This is CAPITALISM...

[u/MechAegis]

ohhh so this is what he was after when he was seeing the spy.

[u/fingertipoffun]

For 20 years i've been hearing this in one form or another. It's like free energy. No one is going to bother as there is no money in it.

[u/WolfGuptaofficial]

nice !

[u/SadMap7915]

Meanwhile, in America, RFK Jr. (Secretary of Health and Human Services) claimed that "a baby normally lives inside the placenta".

[u/Psilonemo]

The economic benefit of making a treatment for diabetes universally available for a cheap price is considered an externality. But the economic benefit of creating a cartel arround its profit centered gatekeeping is all the rage.

China will likely make this cheap and universally available because the economic benefits in efficiency and productivity will be greater that way.

[u/JetstreamGW]

Okay but type 2 diabetics still produce insulin. So what does it do for type 2 diabetics?

[u/Subject-Act5509]

Peer review or didn't happen

[u/paakhay]

Pp

[u/Laddyh0]

Meh only in china

[u/Toth-Amon]

Any actual source on this or just this picture?

[u/ironmanerism]

now do lactose intolerance!

[u/theworstvp]

thank you for this news, oh JPEG of knowledge

[u/GlenGlenDrach]

So still fat, but live longer?

How about a treatment that takes away the hunger for sugar?

[u/pegasus5675]

Interesting.

[u/geekosas]

China curse, pharma treats

[u/ForeignWeb8992]

Except that type 2 people have no issues making insulin 

[u/Lithium98]

Big pharma is gonna be so pissed when they can't bleed diabetics dry anymore

[u/Aromatic-Thing-132]

I feel like this is a great achievement we don't want to look too deeply into how it was developed.

[u/Apollosfury]

Traveling to china seems to be the solution then.