While current methods of isolating islet cells for transplantation strip away the structural scaffold that supports the cells ...

After a one-year follow-up, 10 of 12 patients given the islet cell therapy zimislecel no longer required insulin. Vertex ...

A pioneering study has found that laboratory-grown insulin-producing cells may effectively cure severe forms of type 1 ...

A pretreatment step could help transplanted pancreatic islets survive longer in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a ...

Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with type 1 diabetes to ...

VX-880 stem cell therapy led to 92% reduction in insulin use, with 10 out of 12 patients eliminating injections entirely in a ...

A study may have found a cure for type 1 diabetes. Here, experts explain how the treatment, zimislecel, works and what it ...

A stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 patients with the most severe form of type 1 diabetes -- during a ...

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Groundbreaking First-in-Human Study Establishes Potential to Treat Type 1 Diabetes by Transplanting Insulin-Secreting Cells Without Immunosuppression Six-Month Patient Follow-up Results Demonstrate ...

The cure for diabetes is a life free from daily insulin injections. Based on that criterion, ten out of 12 people (83%) in a new clinical trial were cured of their diabetes one year after receiving a ...

The American Diabetes Association's McCormick Place event was also a bit of a coming out party for North Chicago-based Abbott ...