BBC NEWS | Health | Transplant cures man of diabetes

I read this on the way in to work this morning. The cure depends on islet transplants, and what the story fails to mention is that as in any transplant, the recipient is dependent on anti-immune-reaction drugs for the rest of their life. The only way around this (barring twins) is to employ cloned islet cells, which to date are solely obtainable via the use of the ever-controversial stem cells, cells taken from foetii, I think.

Viv and I have discussed this, and she rejects, rightly, I think, the idea of replacing one lifetime treatment which she has mastered, it seems, with another which she would need to learn in her forties.