In October 2024, a team of Chinese researchers at Peking University reported that a 25-year-old woman who had lived with Type 1 diabetes since childhood stopped needing insulin injections within 75 days of receiving an experimental stem cell transplant generated from her own fat cells

A 25-year-old woman in northern China spent every day of the preceding decade injecting insulin to keep herself alive — and then, one summer afternoon in 2023, she received the only treatment that has, in the recorded history of Type 1 diabetes therapy, restored a patient’s natural insulin production from cells derived entirely from her [...] The post In October 2024, a team of Chinese researchers at Peking University reported that a 25-year-old woman who had lived with Type 1 diabetes since chi