Have you heard of the LSFM4LIFE project? This week, I received an email about European Commission funded work into a potential permanent cure for type 1 diabetes.
The base of the research is a cellular therapy, growing human pancreas organoids (mini organs) from adult stem cells. The organoid of the pancreas then produces insulin, freeing type 1s from daily insulin injections.
Currently, the project is at the research stage. It involves eight partner teams from six different countries who are working to develop tools and technologies for cell-based therapy. The partners come from academia and industry, and include Goethe University, the University of Cambridge, InSphero and Sparks and Co.
Incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing by 3 to 4 percent every year, especially among children.
You can read more about the project here: https://lsfm4life.eu/lsfm4life-in-depth/ and there’s a quick explanation of it on YouTube here.
Diabetes Diet 
It’s exciting to think that pancreas organoids can be implanted and start producing insulin for people with Diabetes mellitus 1.
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It is Gary, though it often feels like barely a week goes by without some new project promising a cure…
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True, it’s like that with so many things, but I feel, new stem cell technology is getting so close to realising so many benefits.
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And if it happens in my lifetime, I’ll dance a jig of joy while gaily throwing my syringes and vials in the air!
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I am always reminded of an elderly diabetic I knew, now long dead, who opined that a “cure” had been only five years away, for over twenty years . . .
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I know! The Information Age makes this phenomenon much worse!
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