Chinese scientists achieve diabetes cure through innovative cell therapy, detailed in Cell Discovery. Patient, treated in July 2021, no longer requires insulin after eleven weeks, and is now medication-free for 33 months. The breakthrough, praised by Timothy Kieffer, signifies a major advancement in diabetes treatment. This novel approach utilizes the body's regenerative abilities and could alleviate China's healthcare burden. Further studies are needed for validation.
  • taanegl@beehaw.org
    617·
    29 days ago

    Here is a thread of whiney redditors who just discovered the fediverse. Enjoy.

    “Hurpa durpa durp, unserious joke about the Chinese wanting to kill Americans, but they create a vaccine for one of the deadliest diseases in the US hurpa durpa duhr”… now take it completely and utterly seriously. GO!

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      91·
      29 days ago

      Type I diabetes has absolutely nothing to do with weight, it’s a disorder of the pancreas that’s mostly genetic. The rates of all forms of diabetes taken together in China and the US are almost the same. I’m sorry if this science flew over your head yo

      • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
        31·
        29 days ago

        Its worse the that. Many think now it is reversed. As T2 is a resistance to insulin. And without insulin you cannot gain energy from your diet. It is now commonly accepted that those prown to t2 diabetes are often forced to eat due to the body gaining less energy from food.

        So being genetically prown to to can lead to weight gain prior to diagnosis. Rather then weight gain leading to to t2d.

        • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          I don’t want to say my experience is that of everyone, but I recently was diagnosed with T2D when I gained weight due to COVID-19 interrupting my exercise routine. Dropping weight has brought my A1C levels back in line in the past, then when I gained back some my A1C levels went back up. I’m not particularly prone to weight gain, but getting much into the overweight range kicked me into a diabetic A1C range. My father has similar characteristics, with even a health weight and diet leaving him with pre-diabetic A1C levels. But then in contrast, my mother and her mother were obese for decades without a smidge of diabetes. Lots of genetics going on there.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      29 days ago

      EDIT: dunno why, but because Beehaw, I can’t actually see the comment below. So I’ll answer here…

      Beehaw defederated from a lot of the bigger instances because someone hurt their feelings or whatever. So now you miss out on the majority of lemmy content including comments. I would suggest creating an account with a different instance so that you can experience the entirety of the community.

      • apotheotic(she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
        62·
        29 days ago

        Beehaw has defederated from instances they felt were not meeting a minimum standard of moderation and healthy, good faith discussion. Beehaw’s whole shtick is to maintain a platform where its users can be(e) kind and expect others to behave similarly.

        It is genuinely baffling to me how people can see beehaw curating their instance this way and go “feewings” and “beehaw bad”.

        • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          28 days ago

          If people want to be part of a limited community that’s fine and well. The issue I have is that a lot of people joining lemmy don’t know what beehaw is about and join it just because it’s a name they’ve maybe heard of. Then they’re completely unimpressed by lemmy, not knowing they’re only part of a fraction of the federation. Next thing they’re back on reddit or whereever.

          Also, as someone with access to the majority of lemmy instances, I’ve only ran into maybe a handful of assholes on here. I’m really not sure what beehaw is trying to shelter it’s users from. It’s easy enough to block someone on the rare occasion.

          • apotheotic(she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
            3·
            28 days ago

            Its incredibly difficult to join beehaw without knowing what its about. When you apply to join they explain what it is and ensure that you’re actually, like, on board with the mission. I can understand the sentiment of users finding themselves underwhelmed and leaving if they don’t understand why.

            As someone with accounts on other instances, I’ve definitely encountered far more bigotry and bad faith arguments off-beehaw than on-beehaw. For some people, which would appear to include you, encountering the asshole and blocking and moving on is sufficient, and that’s fine and awesome for them. But for others who may be part of marginalised communities or particularly vulnerable, the bubble of safety and curation that beehaw offers is so tremendously valuable.

            • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              28 days ago

              Ok, sounds like they’ve made it a lot more clear since the reddit exodos which is the last time I’ve had any interaction with beehaw. That’s good then.