Just like cancer, diabetes is highly unlikely to be cured, not because it's impossible, but because there is too much money involved.
A California reseach team was working on an enzyme that they thought could cure obesity. This research came our of the Genome project that had been fostered by the elder Bush in the late 80s.
In order to test their enzyme treatment they had to develope experimental mice who were obese and then treat them. they did,(creatre obese mice) they treated them and voi la they were cured!!!! BTW obese mice are diabetic. When their obeseness was cured so was their diabetes. Diabetes can be cured we just need to fund the research. The difficulty is delivering the enzyme. An inhaler spray so that the enzymen can get into the blood stream without going through the digestive tract where it would be "digested" is the trick. And in this treatment there is no stemcell or other tricky procedures. Just organically producing the enzyme.
I'm a Type 1 diabetic and have been since I was nine months old and that is my fear as well. But I have to stay positive. This doctor's research sounds very promising and I hope she continues to receive the financial backing that she needs and that she has the courage to continue her work.
You maybe right but I hope to hell you're wrong. It's no different than a slow cancer. I've spent time at diabetics bedsides watching them die. It's painful.
Which is to say, existing structures of ineffective but market dominant technology delivery resist very strongly disruptive technology that actually works, is simpler and costs less.