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Now, the successful treatment of the condition in a young woman in China has brought the possibility of a universal cure tantalizingly close.
Two and a half months later, the woman's lifelong dependence on injected insulin came to an end – completely reversing her long-term, hard-to-control diabetes. If this one patient can keep producing insulin naturally in the coming years, she could one day be declared 'cured' – the first successful case of its kind in the scientific literature.Researchers in China are already planning to open up their trial to new patients.
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