Why it matters
A Swedish man with long-term type 1 diabetes is now making his own insulin after receiving donor cells that were gene-edited to hide from his immune system.
He needed no anti-rejection d…
Gene-Edited Cells Offer New Hope for Type 1 Diabetes
For the first time, donor insulin-making cells survived and worked in a person with type 1 diabetes without anti-rejection drugs—a landmark step toward a functional cure.
