A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured Type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have established a novel transplantation site for islets of Langerhans that enables long-term intravital microscopy of islet physiology in awake mice with ...

Researchers at Umeå University have conducted a unique three-dimensional mapping of an entire human pancreas. The study shows ...

NewcelX Ltd. NCEL, a regenerative medicine company, on Wednesday announced the submission of a Pre-IND briefing package to ...

Stem cell-derived pancreatic islets are being studied as a rich transplantable source for insulin production, a therapeutic for type 1 diabetes that overcomes the need to obtain islet cells from ...

A vascularized organoid model of hormone-secreting cells in the pancreas has been developed, with potential to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies. “Our results highlight the importance ...

Cheryl Pile met the criteria for an islet-cell transplant program in Alberta to treat her debilitating diabetes. But it took three specialists to finally get her referred to the program. Pile was ...

An investigational antibody could reduce the toxicity associated with immune suppression in islet cell transplantation for type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to new preliminary data. Six people with T1D ...

KYOTO--Kyoto University Hospital next February will start a clinical trial to develop an easier treatment for intractable type 1 diabetes by using cellular sheets derived from induced pluripotent stem ...

Sana's first-in-human study shows HIP technology allows islet cells to avoid immune rejection and produce insulin without immunosuppression. Reliance on initial results: The press release heavily ...

Researchers have devised the right conditions to grow vascularized stem cell islets. The image shows vasculature (red) tightly wrapped around insulin-producing cells (green) in the islets (blue).