Luke O’Neill has hailed a “great breakthrough” that could help people with type 1 diabetes.
A woman in China with type 1 diabetes has become insulin-independent one year after undergoing new stem-cell therapy.
The case study from Nankai University in China has been described as “ground-breaking” by Medical News Today.
On The Pat Kenny Show, Professor Luke O’Neill explained the science behind the treatment.
“With type 1 diabetes your immune system destroys your pancreas and you can’t make insulin and then you become insulin-dependent – it’s a very serious disease,” he said.
As a result, the bodies of type 1 diabetes patients do not let glucose enter cells to produce energy.
“In this case, they took cells from a young woman, from her fat tissue,…