First Canadian to receive procedure says she would do it ‘a million times over’ compared with previous work to keep blood ...

Amanda Smith celebrates the day, August 1, nearly two years ago, when she stopped taking insulin to manage her type one ...

In islet cell transplantation, beta cells are removed from a donor's pancreas and transferred into a person with type 1 diabetes. Beta cells are one type of cell found in the islets of the ...

Pancreatic islet transplantation is an effective β-cell replacement therapy that has the capacity to normalize glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus To date, over 1,500 ...

Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes.

With respect to islet transplantation a further difficulty is that many of the current agents damage beta cells or induce peripheral insulin resistance. 4 To address this problem, we developed a ...

Marlaina Goedel was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 5 and recently underwent an islet cell transplant. Courtesy Marlaina Goedel via UChicago Medicine Goedel said her diabetes became so ...

A stained graft which was retrieved six weeks after islet and reprogrammed vascular endothelial cell (R-VEC) ...

I’m in shock. I’m going to need you to repeat that.’" Goedel, like Gilada, underwent an islet cell transplant through a clinical trial at the University of Chicago Medicine Transplant ...

In the United States, where islet-cell transplants are still considered experimental, Vertex Pharmaceuticals of South Boston, Massachusetts, is actively involved in U.S. research and clinical trials.