BCG stand for the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, which was developed by two French scientists called Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. After much development it was introduced in 1921 and has been used extensively as a vaccine against tuberculosis.

It seems to have a number of interesting effects on the immune system which mark it out as rather different from other vaccines. It has been used to prevent a number of other diseases, and can be of value in bladder cancer. There is now evidence that it may have a place in the treatment of some people with Type 1 diabetes.

Trials have used BCG to kill the immune cells that are responsible for destroying the insulin producing cells in the pancreas, which leads to Type 1 diabetes. Studies using mice have shown that a similar treatment results in a permanent cure for about a third animals treated in this way.

This is still a long way away from this to direct application to humans and this approach will probably be successful in only a minority of cases, but it does represent another interesting development.

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