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<blockquote data-quote="Celsus" data-source="post: 871659" data-attributes="member: 185674"><p>A cure will certainly come one day, as we start to better understand the mechanics of the disease down to the cell and molecule level. Question is of course how quickly we can advance toward mapping out all and then convert that into a viable cure that can be scaled to all that needs it. E.g. human beta-cell transplants may work, but we have not even 1/10,000 of the donor organs we need to cover the world population of diabetics. So a real cure need to be based on technology leap we do not yet grasp. I agree there is always hope for a cure, but thinking egoistically (as we human often do) we may conclude its potentially not going to happen in our own lifetime.</p><p>Thinking back when I got diagnosed back in early 70ties, we already had talks then about the cure probably just being max 5-8 years away. That unfortunately seem to have been repeated again and again. Granted, we have also learned a lot since then, and tried many more new approaches. We are getting wiser for every turn we make. Diabetes is a complex beast, and as we know today (and not 30+ years back) actually a group of diseases (T1, T2, T1.5, LADA, etc) all simply leading to the same type of symptoms. But they may all have different root causes and as result need a different 'cure' to be resolved. Nano technology and bio-engineering/DNA manipulation gets my money for the road ahead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celsus, post: 871659, member: 185674"] A cure will certainly come one day, as we start to better understand the mechanics of the disease down to the cell and molecule level. Question is of course how quickly we can advance toward mapping out all and then convert that into a viable cure that can be scaled to all that needs it. E.g. human beta-cell transplants may work, but we have not even 1/10,000 of the donor organs we need to cover the world population of diabetics. So a real cure need to be based on technology leap we do not yet grasp. I agree there is always hope for a cure, but thinking egoistically (as we human often do) we may conclude its potentially not going to happen in our own lifetime. Thinking back when I got diagnosed back in early 70ties, we already had talks then about the cure probably just being max 5-8 years away. That unfortunately seem to have been repeated again and again. Granted, we have also learned a lot since then, and tried many more new approaches. We are getting wiser for every turn we make. Diabetes is a complex beast, and as we know today (and not 30+ years back) actually a group of diseases (T1, T2, T1.5, LADA, etc) all simply leading to the same type of symptoms. But they may all have different root causes and as result need a different 'cure' to be resolved. Nano technology and bio-engineering/DNA manipulation gets my money for the road ahead. [/QUOTE]
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