Vertex is ending work on one of its two clinical-stage islet cell treatments after the diabetes therapy looked unlikely to ...

Doctoral students Alan Chiu, left, and Duo An hold a sample of TRAFFIC (Thread-Reinforced Alginate Fiber for Islets enCapsulation). In the background, left to right, are Minglin Ma, Dan Luo ...

Moreover, all 12 showed evidence that the islet cells had grafted and were ... a version called VX-264 in which the cells are encapsulated in a protective device designed to protect them from ...

Vertex halts VX-264 trials after missing efficacy goals but continues advancing zimislecel, a potential treatment for severe ...

In Part B of the study, participants received the full dose of the investigational fully differentiated pancreatic islet cell therapy encapsulated in a proprietary immunoprotective device.

An alternative T1D treatment is clinical pancreatic islet transplantation (CIT), where beta cell ... researchers have explored transplanting beta cells encapsulated in materials that physically block ...

Ameliorating the blood glucose control in type 1 diabetes through islet transplantation, to give just one example, would help control the many secondary effects of the disease, including ...