Tag: Pancreas

• New tissue-engineered platform for islet cell transplantation found effective in type 1 diabetic patients

  Researchers from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) have produced the clinical results demonstrating that pancreatic islet cells transplanted within a tissue-engineered platform can achieve insulin independence in type 1 diabetes. The research findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Fluorescence microscopy of islets in the omentum transplanted within the biologic scaffold. In…

  Sreeram Penna

  May 11, 2017