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Stem cells gave a woman 15 years free from a disease that usually destroys her immune system

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Her immune system was attacking her own body; doctors reset it completely, like rebooting a computer running faulty code—and it's stayed fixed for over a decade.

This means severe autoimmune disease might no longer be a life sentence—if this holds up in larger studies, it reframes what "chronic and incurable" actually means.


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