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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
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 the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
Transplanting artificial skin
Professor Toby Coates, Director of Kidney and Pancreatic Islet Transplantation and Associate Professor John Greenwood AM, Director of the Burns Unit, are looking into the effectiveness of transplanting islet cells into artificial skin made of a biodegradable material, rather than into the liver.
https://jdrf.org.uk/news/skin-scaffolds-support-beta-cells/
Sounds promising 🙂
Transplanting artificial skin
Professor Toby Coates, Director of Kidney and Pancreatic Islet Transplantation and Associate Professor John Greenwood AM, Director of the Burns Unit, are looking into the effectiveness of transplanting islet cells into artificial skin made of a biodegradable material, rather than into the liver.
https://jdrf.org.uk/news/skin-scaffolds-support-beta-cells/
Sounds promising 🙂