Type 1 cure

It is 5 am and I am planning my daily walk. To meet the stepping challenge this summer. Why am I walking for diabetes UK?

 Type 1 diabetes cannot be cured or reversed. It has nothing to do with eating sweets or a bad diet.

In hospital with my child, at their diagnosis it was heartbreaking and overwhelming to watch them learn to inject themselves, to see his despair as his tiny fingers failed to bleed enough for the regular finger pricks, and to find enough fatty areas on his stick-thin legs and skinny tummy for insulin injection several times a day. 

Type 1 diabetes, Once known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that diabetics live with for the rest of their lives. Over the past hundred years Scientific and engineering advances have been made. The first kept diabetics alive. And over time the result of research has improved their quality of life. 

In the newest research, scientists have successfully transplanted lab-grown insulin-producing cells into a person with type 1 diabetes.  A 42-year-old patient, who has lived with diabetes for nearly 40 years, received transplanted cells directly into his arm muscle. It did not trigger his immune rejection and did not need immune-suppressing drugs.

CRISPR gene editing modified the cells to avoid detection by the immune system,. The patient produced his own insulin for 12 weeks. For 12 weeks he did not need to inject insulin. And he didn’t need anti-rejection drugs.


This is the first time such a transplant has worked in a human without rejection, marking a potential game-changer in type 1 diabetes treatment. If these results hold in the long term, it could lead to a future where people with type 1 diabetes no longer need daily insulin shots or immune-suppressing drugs.


While early, this breakthrough offers hope for a real, lasting cure by harnessing gene editing and cell therapy to restore the body’s natural insulin production.


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