About

I'm Karl-Johan, a dad. My young daughter has type 1 diabetes, and I want a cure for her.

Type 1 diabetes doesn't take days off. A pump and a sensor now do a lot of the work, and they're remarkable. But someone still counts every gram of carbohydrate, watches the graph at night, and answers alarms. For a small child, that someone is a parent.

The technology makes the disease livable. It doesn't make it go away. What would make it go away is in the labs and clinics right now: insulin-producing cells grown from stem cells, cells edited so the immune system leaves them alone, and drugs that stop the attack before it starts. Some of it is in people already. I wanted to know how close it is, what could still go wrong, and what to watch for. This site is where I keep track.

How this site works

• Sources first. Every claim about a trial or a result links to where it came from: a paper, a trial registry or a company report. Company statements are labelled as such.
• Dated. Research pages show when the facts were last checked. In this field, a year-old summary can be wrong.
• Plans are not results. Timelines from companies are their targets, not forecasts, and the site says so.
• Written with AI help. I use AI tools to search papers and draft text. I read the sources and decide what goes in, and mistakes are mine. If you spot one, please tell me.
• No ads, no sponsors, no affiliations. I don't work for, or own shares in, any of the companies mentioned. If that changes, I'll say so here.

What I'm not

I'm not a doctor or a researcher. Nothing here is medical advice. Questions about treatment belong with your diabetes team.

The blog

Next to the research there's a blog. It's where I write about the technology we use every day, what our own data shows, and what I think should be better, especially for parents of small children.