Look­ing to cure Type 1 di­a­betes, in­vestors front $114M to launch a pi­o­neer­ing hu­man study at Sem­ma

Three years ago, Har­vard’s Doug Melton pub­lished a land­mark study out­lin­ing how he had suc­cess­ful­ly used stem cells to cre­ate in­sulin-pro­duc­ing pan­cre­at­ic be­ta cells that were in­sert­ed in bulk in­to mice and suc­cess­ful­ly pro­tect­ed from an im­mune re­sponse — a break­through in re­gen­er­a­tive med­i­cine that bore re­al promise to pro­vide a cu­ra­tive ap­proach for Type 1 di­a­betes that could con­ceiv­ably end a life­time of in­sulin shots.

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