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Type 1 Diabetes Patient’s Insulin Production Restored with New Cell Transplant Therapy

Scientists treated a person’s type 1 diabetes with genetically modified insulin-producing cells that evaded immune system attacks. This is the first therapy for the condition that does not require immunosuppressant drugs

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