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Could this (eventually) be the solution we are all hoping for

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martindt1606

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There have been many false dawns in the search for a cure, but this does sound promising, and does have a good provenance based on the previous work of Dr Shapiro. Shame Governments around the world cannot fund his remaining research at Covid Levels. Would certainly make availability in our life time possible and would reduce future health budgets by billions....

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/cure-fo...searchers-believe-they-ve-found-one-1.5192813
 
Works on mice, heard that one so many times never for cure treatment to materialise.

Still live in hope.
 
"These creatures you call mice you see are not quite as they appear, they are merely the protrusions into our dimension of vast, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings" SLARTIBARFAST

Douglas Adams was right, otherwise why would all these mad ideas fail when they get to human testing?
 
Sorry but alot of this research on mice never seems to be translate into benefits to us!
 
Sorry very sceptical heard it so many times.
 
I’m still waiting until the ‘10 years’ is up from 1991. Fingers crossed this is the 10 years they meant all along!
 
A year in relation to a cure seems to be an awful lot longer than a normal year! I used to get excited about possible cures, but now I find them a bit depressing in a way because it reminds me of all the ‘could lead to a cure in 5 years’ headlines where whatever they’re talking about as a cure is never heard of again 🙄

Trying to be positive though, I do think our own cells will lead to an eventual cure - or some kind of halt to the immune attack that would allow our beta cells to regenerate.

Anyway, good luck to Dr Shapiro and all researchers!
 
I do not expect to see a cure for myself. I don't see this as a hugely negative thing as I have a good life and I can manage diabetes. The technology is good and getting better. In the last 17 years it hasn't stopped me doing what I want, I have no complications so I do not see myself as a priority.
I hope the future for type 1 diabetes is not a cure but eradication; not "how do we cure you of this disease?" but "how do we stop anyone else getting it?"
Not only will this approach save people from injections and testing and worrying about complications but it will save our health service lots of money not having to treat it.

In the meantime, I read the research for a cure with an academic interest and read about the technology improvements with a "can I have it?" desire.
 
I hope it’s both cure and eradication - in that order. The threat of complications is always there and some people are unlucky enough to get them even with good control.
 
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