For Dr. Daniel Gilada, a husband, physician and soon-to-be father of four, living with Type 1 diabetes had become “overwhelming.” “I felt so bad that it was becoming my new norm,” said Gilada, ...

With further testing, the novel approach could one day cure the as-yet incurable condition. The pancreatic islet is the only human tissue that produces insulin in response to rising blood glucose ...

An advancement in diabetes treatment has been achieved by Professor Hyun-Wook Kang and his team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST. They have developed a novel pancreatic islet ...

Dr. Mark Pescovitz answers the question: 'Role Of Islet Cell Transplantation?' — -- Question: What is the role of islet cell transplantation in the treatment of diabetes? Answer: Islet cells are ...

Wenzhou Medical University researchers have reimagined the spleen as a viable site for islet transplantation, enabling long-term diabetes control without the burden of full immunosuppression.

Despite huge advances in transplantation research and the development of new sources of organs and tissues, the need for long-term, often toxic immunosuppressive therapy remains a necessity.

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the ...

For the first time, researchers have transplanted gene-edited donor islet cells that secrete insulin in a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) without the use of immunosuppression. The study subject, a ...

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 ...