a16z Bio + Health #18: What will it take to cure diabetes?
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What Are the Challenges to Getting That in the People?
i think a kind of watershed moment, as i said, was showing that one could take an embryonic or pluripotent stem cell and turn it into a fully functional bata cell. How to do it with naked cells requires genetic modification. We're using lessons learned from cancer cells, which avoid immune rejection,. There are lots of clues there about geans we might use in the body to prevent rejections. And so those three areas of research are extremely active now.
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