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Your son and daughter have diabetes, which must be a huge incentive to develop a cure for the disease. How far have you got?

In type 1 diabetes we have two problems. There is an absence of insulin-producing beta cells and also an autoimmune attack, which is what killed the cells in the first place. Our lab and others have worked on the first problem and I am confident we will get buckets of beta cells. When I started this, I thought that by the time I got to making beta cells the autoimmune problem would have been solved. In…

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