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  • The 20th Anniversary of the Edmonton Protocol

    March 11, 2019

    This day, 20 years ago, a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) was cured. Well, pseudo-cured. On March 11, 1999, the Edmonton...

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  • Viacyte Receives Funding to Continue Developing Beta Cell Therapies

    May 27, 2020

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  • Meet the Scientist: Local Immune Suppression with a Novel Protein

    May 13, 2020

    Mark Poznansky, M.D., Ph.D., wants the seemingly impossible—a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has a procedure where beta cells are placed...

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  • Public and Private Organizations, All with the Same Goal: End T1D

    May 12, 2020

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  • JDRF Plays a Leadership Role, Again, to Marshal Resources for T1D Research

    May 6, 2020

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  • Meet the Scientist: Developing Devices That Resist Autoimmune Attacks

    April 20, 2020

    What might be the next best thing to having a healthy pancreas that is steadily producing insulin? It could be a device...

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  • Coating on Capsules Next Step in Creating Insulin-Producing Factories

    April 6, 2020

    One potential cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D) is to replace beta cells destroyed by a person’s own immune system with healthy...

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  • Strengthening Type 1 Diabetes Science by Building Careers

    March 24, 2020

    Sometimes, the funding that JDRF can provide for researchers is exactly the invitation they need to get into the field of type...

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  • JDRF Beta Cell Replacement Consortium: Partnerships and Paradigm Shifts

    November 27, 2019

    Last week’s JDRF Beta Cell Replacement Consortium enabled 57 researchers the chance to collaborate in ways that help move research forward more...

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  • Production of Insulin in People with Type 1 Diabetes

    November 25, 2019

    Sernova, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, has shown in its JDRF-funded clinical trial that its cell replacement therapy, the Cell Pouch System™,...

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