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It's a substack page, where they praise themselves for their "award winning journalism" so I would take this article with a massive grain of salt.
Ahhhhh riiight "communist" china. In the same group as the "anti-nazi russia" and "democratic usa"
Lmao yeah China is a capitalist dynasty
Terrible hype article. This was one person. And, it's not unique, similar trials are taking place worldwide. But the US based development was all killed with the NIH cuts.
Also, china is not comunist.
Sure thing, but I think that was the whole point of the article. It's not staying that America isn't enough technologically advanced to achieve that, but that nobody wants to do that because it would kill a huge industry
I agree with most of the points regarding how how China does/would treat a diabetes cure in comparison to China, this post (it's not an article) is garbage. It's got no sources, just vaguely references a single case.
It would be a better post if it didn't mention China at all and instead discussed how diabetes is approached under American capitalism.
Wow, I love this. The whole damn American meds industry is more rotten than Surströmming Thank you, China!
I love how you call it Communist China when it's just as run-by-oligarchs as the US is. In fact they made an oligarch president for life.
It's not communist, it's socialist with Chinese characteristics! (The characteristics are oligarchs)
They're getting new beautiful infrastructure and disease cures.
We're bringing back measles, coal mining, and actively stupefying our kids for profit.
USA! USA!
you mean from the not communist, capitalist china, that one, the one that ditched communism 40 years ago
ok
Yeah. The same one that’s getting new beautiful infrastructure and disease cures.
How the Therapy Works
The process involves regenerative medicine, utilizing the patient's own body's capabilities to treat the illness.
Cell Extraction: A small sample of cells (e.g., fat cells or blood cells) is taken from the patient. Reprogramming: These cells are chemically treated in a lab to revert them to a pluripotent state, meaning they can develop into any type of cell.
Differentiation and Transplantation: The stem cells are then guided to become functional, insulin-producing islet cells. These new cells are then transplanted back into the patient's abdominal area.
Restored Function: Once implanted, the cells engraft and begin producing insulin naturally in response to blood glucose levels, effectively restoring the body's natural ability to regulate blood sugar.
That doesn't make sense for type 2. This is exactly how they've been trialing treatment of type 1, they just announced it a few months ago I think it was Stanford and Toronto
for a long time, different insulin types were only produced by a triopoly in the states, otherwise they would lose to cheaper generics, or competition if they were aggresively using competition, i think it changed now.
NOVO nordisk, ELLY lily, and sanofi were the primary producers.
Is there a better source?
Not entirely obvious, but this is what the substack referenced: https://interestingengineering.com/health/stem-cell-therapy-diabetes-china
This "cure" was from 2024, per the South China Morning Post.
In case anyone was thinking this was new.
Any news on it since then? It wouldn't be the first time a scientific achievement out of China that embarrasses The West just fizzled out when no one was looking.
Is it really an achievement if it fizzles out?
A real groundbreaking achievement may travel slow, but it will stay steady since it actively improves lives. People will keep talking about it.
Unlike, lets say, propaganda. That goes fast and fizzles out faster.
We should be able to check if the amount of diabetes in China falls down rapidly.
It is if the results were falsified. Even it it worked somewhat, they're probably greatly over stating the effectiveness or ability to scale to a mass population.
I remember years back, China solved world hunger by growing mushrooms in caves. I can't find anything on that anymore, but I still have a friend listing that accomplishment.
Hell, it calls China "Communist", I started reading it like it was a headline from the 1960s.
wasn't the original inventor of insulin insistent that it remain cheap and readily available?
Banting and Best sold the patent for $1. But they were Canadian.
The cost of insulin has nothing to do with intellectual property.
The current price of insulin is still directly affected by patents. Yes, they are still getting patents 100 years later with analogs and biosimilars.
We certainly could manufacture the original formula for cheap, but no one wants to do that. Capitalism and intellectual property combined are the culprits.
The government could fix this a number of ways, but it hasn't.
No.
Is there a more reliable source than "HR News" ?
Seriously, MASSIVE source citation needed. As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
HIV is next, then cancer. China now has the kind of state scientific infrastructure that the US had in the 1950s. For some reason the USA is actively trying to destroy theirs.
china wouldve been comporable, if they had not just fudge thier numbers, experiments in biological research all the time and make claims that cant be backed up. CCP is quite insular when it comes to research that hasnt been reverse engineered.
We've been hearing this for decades. Care to cite some actual data?
I do believe that HIV will happen soon, but curing cancer is a lot like curing the common cold. Even if you cure one strain, there are still hundreds more with the same end result. Cancer is just the umbrella term for a particular type of cellular behavior, but there are a lot of different types, causes, etc and treatments will vary for each.
To be clear, this isn’t some nihilistic doomer “why even bother trying” type of post. Modern medicine has already made great strides in curing several different kinds of specific cancers. But a cure for one cancer will not really equate to “curing cancer”, because there will still be countless others.
I wouldn't be so sure about HIV. Perhaps a functional cure, but complete remission is probably quite a while away yet.
People shouldn’t have to hope that Chinese scientists cure diabetes just so American companies can’t keep price gouging them. But here we are.
here we are indeed