One type 1 diabetes patient reportedly became insulin-independent after a stem-cell islet transplant

A commenter describing a first-in-human case says a patient with type 1 diabetes received islet-like cells derived from her own fat cells. She stopped needing insulin injections 75 days after the transplant and maintained glucose control at one year, according to the account. The result involves one patient who was already taking immunosuppressants; whether the new cells would survive the autoimmune attack without those drugs remains unanswered.