Great news. Meanwhile, diabetes type 1 remains an incurable disease. I feel like humanity failed people with diabetes type 1. You could argue it's easier to destroy cells (while curing cancer) than create them (as it would be required in curing diabetes type 1), but it nonetheless feels surreal we still don't have a cure despite all of the technological progress. While it's getting worse and the number of affected people grows every year.
A woman in China received a transplant of pancreatic beta cells derived from her own, induced pluripotent stem cells. She was able to go off insulin, even a year out.
A cure for T1D is coming.
This sounds like a very meaningful first step in the field of regenerative medicine! Incredibly exciting news.
Life expectancy for T1D diagnosis in 1980 is 15 years longer than those diagnosed in the 1960s.
Life expectancy seems to continue to trend upwards.
My wife is alive and healthy with T1D, which doesn't matter at all for your claim, but the aggregate evidence for all T1D seems far removed from humanity failing diabetics.