Can an 80-year-old TB vaccine cure diabetes? Maybe. A small clinical study found “proof of principle” that the BCG tuberculosis vaccine might help adults with long-standing type 1 diabetes.
Over a decade ago, Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School showed that the BCG vaccine worked in diabetic mice. By stimulating positive immune responses, the vaccine stopped the haywire immune responses that cause diabetes.
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