The gold standard treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus is intensive insulin replacement. An alternative approach is to suppress the autoimmune reaction against pancreatic β-cells; this ...

Transplanting insulin-producing cells along with engineered blood-vessel-forming cells has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes, according to a new preclinical study. With further testing, the ...

CellTrans has claimed the first FDA approval for a cell therapy used to treat type 1 diabetes, consisting of insulin-producing islet beta cells taken from deceased donors. The Chicago-based ...

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks pancreatic beta cells. Type 2 diabetes happens when the body cannot use insulin effectively. The two types differ in symptoms, causes ...

In a revolutionary medical procedure, insulin-producing cells derived from a young woman’s own body were successfully ...

A single piece of genetic material influences whether someone develops type 1 diabetes, Dutch researchers discovered. People ...

BeaGL was created by researchers at the University of California Davis and UC Davis Health who were inspired by their own ...

Over the last two and a half decades, advancements in stem cell biology and immunology have improved the potential for cell therapy as a treatment for diabetes. Stem cells from ... programmed cell ...

City of Hope, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States and a top ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type—the blood stem cell. An ...

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)), By Diabetes Type (Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes), By Application (Pancreatic Islet Transplantation, Insulin-Producing Cell Therapy, Gene Therapy), By ...