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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Researchers have made a significant first step with newly engineered biomaterials for cell transplantation that could help lead to a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million Americans.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) engineers and Emory University clinicians have successfully engrafted insulin-producing cells into a diabetic mouse model, reversing diabetic symptoms in the animal in as little as 10 days.
The research team engineered a biomaterial to protect the cluster of insulin-producing cells?donor pancreatic islets?during injection. The material also contains proteins to foster blood vessel formation that allow the cells to successfully graft, survive, and function within the body.
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/05/biomaterial-shows-promise-type-1-diabetes-treatment
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) engineers and Emory University clinicians have successfully engrafted insulin-producing cells into a diabetic mouse model, reversing diabetic symptoms in the animal in as little as 10 days.
The research team engineered a biomaterial to protect the cluster of insulin-producing cells?donor pancreatic islets?during injection. The material also contains proteins to foster blood vessel formation that allow the cells to successfully graft, survive, and function within the body.
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/05/biomaterial-shows-promise-type-1-diabetes-treatment