• chunes
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    10 days ago

    Diabetes isn’t only caused by a lack of insulin; it can also be caused by faulty insulin receptors. I wonder if this helps with that

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      10 days ago

      No - this was a targeted therapy that introduced new islet cells into the patient’s pancreas. If he had damaged or non-functioning insulin receptors, this therapy would not have benefitted him.