Cellular Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

An important first step in responding to knowledge about the role of immune response in development of type 1 diabetes has been taken and is discussed in an editorial in today's JAMA [ Jay S. Skyler: JAMA. 2007;297:1599-1600 ] reflecting on a study by Voltarelli et al. ....stem cell transplantation in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus. JAMA. 2007;297:1568-1576. FREE FULL TEXT. This editorial is well worth reading, as is the article. If further similar research can be translated into succesful clinical intervention, we may be on the edge of an intevention for Diabetes, and its complications that may be as important as the development of vaccines,.