Severe chronic pancreatitis is treated by removing the pancreas. Without a pancreas, patients also lose insulin-producing cells called islets. To preserve insulin responses, surgeons transplant islets ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed a thermoresponsive antioxidant biomaterial that they suggest may in the future be used to help improve the survival and function of islet cells in ...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease characterized by pancreatic malfunctional and poor production of insulin. Imagine your pancreas is a factory for insulin, a key hormone that keeps your ...

These factors prompted research into better and more permanent treatments for T1D. The most obvious solution: restore the natural repertoire of β cell islets. Although most recipients experienced ...

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Researchers led by Maike Sander, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance, published in ...