islet cell transplant

I’m 24yo and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes 10 months ago. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time reading up on treatments and future cures. I keep coming across islet cell transplants. While not a cure, it does sound as though it can massively reduce your dependency on insulin, making day to...

When medical devices are implanted in the body, the immune system often attacks them, producing scar tissue around the device. This buildup of tissue, known as fibrosis, can interfere with the device's function. MIT researchers have now come up with a novel way to prevent fibrosis from...

Researchers from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research have developed a standardised method of measuring the immune response in islet transplant recipients, helping predict patient outcomes. Islet transplantation is a frontier therapy for type 1 diabetes with notable success in...

A new way of holding insulin producing islet cells inside the body has been developed. At the Royal Adelaide Hospital in southern Australia, doctors have been trialling artificial skin, already used globally in burns injuries, as a potential site for the transplant of donor islet cells used in...

Northwestern Medicine researchers are co-investigators in a breakthrough clinical trial that found transplanted human islets prevent hypoglycemic events and provide excellent glycemic control for patients with Type 1 diabetes with severe hypoglycemia. The results of the multi-center, single arm...

WASHINGTON — Transplants of insulin-producing pancreas cells are a long hoped-for treatment for diabetes — and a new study shows they can protect the most seriously ill patients from a life-threatening complication of the disease, an important step toward US approval. These transplants are used...

In a new clinical trial to observe a new method of injecting islet cells into a patient with Type 1 diabetes, doctors from the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have confirmed that their first trial patient no longer needs insulin therapy. Wendy Peacock, their first patient, has...