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Published online 19 April 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050418-4
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Mother-to-daughter transplant reverses diabetes
Successful procedure offers fresh hope for patients.
A woman in Japan has had her diabetes reversed by a transplant of insulin-producing cells from her mother. The procedure has given strikingly fast results and marks a departure from previous operations, which relied on cadaver organs as a source of the cells.
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