These questions have been taken up by numerous researchers. The early, pre-clinical stages of IDDM can now be documented with near certainty. The process by which the T-cells attack and destroy islet cells is more clearly defined. Several studies suggest the answer is yes, but available immunosuppressants have proved too toxic for long term use. The complementary function to immune aggression is immune tolerance.
Similar trials are ongoing in the European and Pacific communities.
Ultimately, the root cause or, more likely, causes of immune islet cell destruction will be found. Preventive therapies will be devised. IDDM will simply vanish. Leonard Thompson, Miss Mudge and Elizabeth Hughes would be proud. The internal secretion of the pancreas.