theHRguyFeb 4

Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it

https://lemmy.world/post/42678907

Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Show threadnimpnin
Is there a more reliable source than “HR News” ?
Feb 4 at 10:20pmWeb
Show threadrmtworksFeb 4
Other articles I see for this are from 2024. I don’t think this is recent.
Show threadBeaconFeb 4
Seriously, MASSIVE source citation needed. As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Show threadDiplomjodlerFeb 4
Shhhhhhhh! Don’t you know facts and evidence are tools of capitalist oppression!
Show threadsmegFeb 4
South China Morning Post: scmp.com/…/chinese-scientists-report-world-first-…
Chinese team reports patient’s diabetes cured with cell therapy in world first

A breakthrough cell therapy in Shanghai is reported to have cured a man’s diabetes, giving hope to other sufferers.

South China Morning Post
Show threadBigFigFeb 4

That’s not any more reliable. Maybe a scientific paper or something?

Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkFeb 5
My cousin Doug’s girlfriend?
Show threadpandaslepFeb 4
www.nature.com/articles/s41421-024-00662-3
Treating a type 2 diabetic patient with impaired pancreatic islet function by personalized endoderm stem cell-derived islet tissue - Cell Discovery

Nature
Show threadSumocatFeb 5
Yep, I tracked it back to that correspondence too. Key word there is “correspondence.” It’s not a complete research article, just a single report.
Show threadBeaconFeb 5
For real, this is a zillion miles away from overall "cured diabetes"
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkFeb 5

And it’s in Nature, a journal famous for high profile studies that are poorly peer reviewed and rarely reproduced.

It’s one patient, thus this is an anecdotal report.