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

Researchers say nanoparticles could help engineer the spleen – a more promising long-term survival site than the liver – into ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that the spleen could be instrumental in treating diabetes, following successful cell transplant experiments.

A single infusion of zimislecel, an investigational stem cell-based therapy, restored physiologic islet function and ...

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 ...

One-year data suggest allogeneic stem cell-derived islet-cell therapy could become a future option for those with type 1 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...