How People Can Find A Cure For Type 1 Diabetes And Cancer
Type 1 progress
I tend to write mostly about type 2 diabetes, because that's what I know best. But lately, there have been some interesting developments that may lead to real cures in people with type 1, so I thought I'd switch gears for a bit and write about type 1.
Classic type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. Your immune system attacks your beta cells and destroys them.
Normally, the body is able to distinguish between "self" and "nonself," and it leaves your own tissues alone. How it does this is incr...
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