The currently approved islet-transplant method infuses islets into a vein in the liver. This invasive procedure requires the long-term use of immune-suppressing drugs to prevent islet rejection, ...

Researchers have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance promises to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies. Researchers led by ...

To prevent islet rejection, immune-suppressing drugs are given over the long term. The researchers wanted to develop a less invasive technique that allowed donor islets to be implanted in a site that ...

Islet transplantation significantly reduces the risk of transplantation failure and enhances life expectancy in individuals with type 1 diabetes who undergo kidney transplantation, a new study has ...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease characterized by pancreatic malfunctional and poor production of insulin. Imagine your pancreas is a factory for insulin, a key hormone that keeps your ...

UCSF Health transplant specialists recently performed an innovative, minimally invasive pancreatic islet transplant designed to enable a patient with Type 1 diabetes to become insulin independent. The ...

A coin-sized implantable device created by scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute Department of Nanomedicine could drastically alter the course of treatment for type 1 diabetes (T1D). The ...

Oral presentations were held at the congresses of the ADA1, EASD2 and IPITA-IXA-CTRMS3 Evidence support that AdoShell® Islets is a scalable biocompatible immunoprotective biomaterial for islet ...

A team of international scientists has made a major leap forward in diabetes research by successfully 3D printing functional human islets using a novel bioink. Presented today at the ESOT Congress ...

An international team of scientists has made an advancement in diabetes research by successfully 3D printing functional Langerhans islands (human islets) using a novel bioink. In laboratory tests, the ...