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How a pioneering diabetes drug offers hope for preventing autoimmune disorders

The approval of an antibody therapy that pauses the progression of type 1 diabetes is a first in the field, and some say a model for other drug developers.
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Mikayla Olsten poses for a portrait while sitting on her bed in her dorm room

Student Mikayla Olsten received the antibody therapy teplizumab in 2016, which has kept her from developing symptoms of type 1 diabetes. Credit: Natalie Behring for Nature

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Nature 614, 404-406 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00400-x

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