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ReviewNature medicine2025

Stem cell therapies for diabetes.

Juin Ting Chen, Nidheesh Dadheech, Eddie Han Pin Tan, Natasha Hui Jin Ng, Mickey Boon Chai Koh, James Shapiro, Adrian Kee Keong Teo

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Review in Nature medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Juin Ting Chen *Stem Cells and Diabetes Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-0707-778X
Nidheesh Dadheech *Clinical Islet Transplant Program, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Eddie Han Pin Tan *Cell and Gene Therapy Facility, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4475-0255
Natasha Hui Jin NgStem Cells and Diabetes Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1094-4967
Mickey Boon Chai KohCell and Gene Therapy Facility, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4368-2502
James ShapiroClinical Islet Transplant Program, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. jshapiro@ualberta.ca.
Adrian Kee Keong TeoStem Cells and Diabetes Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore. ateo@imcb.a-star.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5901-7075

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes has long-term, potentially severe implications for healthspan and lifespan and imposes an immense burden on global healthcare, the economy and society. Although a repertoire of medications is available to treat diabetes, these do not properly address the eventual lack of functional pancreatic beta cells that are needed to secrete insulin and maintain glucose homeostasis. Human islet cell transplantation from deceased donors is an established treatment for insulin-requiring type 1 diabetes, but demand outstrips supply. Substantial scientific and clinical progress has occurred in the last decade toward deriving pancreatic islet-like cells from human pluripotent stem cells, suggesting a potentially limitless solution to the supply issue and a new era in cell therapy for diabetes. Here, we critically review the scientific advances, the clinical trials and the various regulatory considerations that will need to be overcome for human stem cell-derived pancreatic islet-like cells to become the next cell therapy breakthrough for diabetes treatment.

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Diabetes MellitusDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Stem Cell TransplantationAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicHumansInsulin-Secreting CellsIslets of Langerhans TransplantationPluripotent Stem Cells

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