One challenge of using cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes is that this approach requires chronic suppression of the immune system to prevent rejection of donor cells. A Vertex Pharmaceuticals ...

Share on Pinterest Are researchers getting closer to functionally curing type 1 diabetes? Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her ...

Discover upcoming breakthroughs in Type 1 Diabetes & B-cell disorder treatments, market growth to $24B by 2031, and key ...

Type 1 diabetes explained. In the case of type 1 diabetes, scientists wondered if stem cells could be used to replace the insulin-producing cells that the body had destroyed.

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 ...

Wenzhou Medical University researchers have reimagined the spleen as a viable site for islet transplantation, enabling ...

A woman with Type 1 diabetes who was treated with her own stem cells subsequently started producing insulin on her own, making her the first person with this type of diabetes to reverse her ...

VX-880, a form of stem cell therapy by the pharmaceutical company Vertex, could offer a simpler lifestyle. Type 1 diabetes attacks islet cells, a specialized group of pancreatic cells that produce ...

Marlaina Goedel was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 5 and recently underwent an islet cell transplant. Courtesy Marlaina Goedel via UChicago Medicine Goedel said her diabetes became so ...

We might someday be able to have replacement insulin-making cells on demand. Scientists in China have presented early clinical trial data suggesting that a person’s stem cells can be turned into ...

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