If you read the actual article, they gave the patient immunosuppressants prior to transplantation but none post transplantation. Further, this patient did NOT have autoimmune type 1 diabetes. Her diabetes was a result of pancreatits. I'm still not sure why she won't reject the islets because although the cells were from her mother, it's still foreign in her body.
Slashdot Mirror
If you read the actual article, they gave the patient immunosuppressants prior to transplantation but none post transplantation. Further, this patient did NOT have autoimmune type 1 diabetes. Her diabetes was a result of pancreatits. I'm still not sure why she won't reject the islets because although the cells were from her mother, it's still foreign in her body.