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Nearly 80 years after the first clinical use of insulin, many important advances in the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus continue to be made. In this issue of the Journal, Shapiro et al.¹ report on a multinational, prospective trial to disseminate the complicated knowledge and techniques required to prepare and transplant human islets and to evaluate the ability to provide a durable cure for a highly selected group of patients with type 1 diabetes.

It is important to realize how far this field has come in the past few years (Figure 1). Before 2000, the preceding two . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

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