{
  "id": 9159355,
  "title": "Immune cells that may help sustain type 1 diabetes attack identified",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/immune-cells-that-may-help-sustain-type-1-diabetes-attack-identified",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-22T15:40:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-immune-cells-sustain-diabetes.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Type 1 diabetes isn't an overnight attack against the body's ability to make insulin. It can be a sustained campaign over years that relentlessly targets insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Scientists have not fully understood why this autoimmune attack—when the body's immune system mistakenly destroys its own healthy cells—persists so long rather than petering out.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}