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By Clare Wilson People having organ transplants in future may no longer have to take anti-rejection medicines, thanks to a technique that could make their immune system see the donor’s tissue as their own. The method involves giving the recipient an infusion of the donor’s cells a week before the operation, so it wouldn’t work […]
The primary cause of the loss of functionality in transplanted pancreatic islets is their low capacity to create new vessels to transport nutrients. Researchers from the University of Barcelona and IDIBAPS have led a study that identifies a protein as the potential modulator in the revascularization of pancreatic islets. In the study, conducted on diabetic […]
Scientists have developed a way to increase the effectiveness of pancreatic islet transplantation, a promising therapy for type 1 diabetes. New findings could make pancreatic islet cell transplants more effective. Immune rejection by the recipient is a major barrier to pancreatic islet transplants from donors becoming routinely available for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. […]
By the time type 1 diabetes is diagnosed, most of the insulin-producing beta cells have already been destroyed. Now, using an innovative transplantation technique, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have been able to intervene to save the beta cells in mice by discovering early signs of the disease. […]
It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul, but they may also open the door for discovering new ways to achieve immune tolerance to transplanted islets in type 1 diabetes, according to research from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The findings, which […]
by Ilene Raymond Rush, For the Inquirer, Updated: January 2, 2019- 9:14 AM It was nothing extraordinary: a mom sharing a digital photo of her 4-year-old daughter in a red-velvet dress, striking a ballet pose. Yet to Melissa Bilotti, 35, and Michael Rickels, medical director of the Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplant Program at Penn Medicine, the […]