Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Dr. Daniel Gilada, a husband, physician and soon-to-be father of four, living with Type 1 diabetes had become “overwhelming.” ...

NewcelX Ltd. NCEL, a regenerative medicine company, on Wednesday announced the submission of a Pre-IND briefing package to ...

The currently approved islet-transplant method infuses islets into a vein in the liver. This invasive procedure requires the long-term use of immune-suppressing drugs to prevent islet rejection, ...

Researchers developed a battery-free device the size of a coin that can deliver islet cells in the body and keep them healthy, no immunosuppression required.

Three people with type 1 diabetes who received Vertex Pharma’s islet cell therapy VX-880 have been able to come off insulin altogether within a year, raising the prospect of a life without regular ...

Diabetes is the most common and serious chronic disease worldwide, characterized by insufficient insulin to maintain proper blood glucose levels. It affects more than 12% of Americans and is the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have established a novel transplantation site for islets of Langerhans that enables long-term intravital microscopy of islet physiology in awake mice with ...

Clinical islet allotransplantation has progressed slowly since improved islet-isolation technologies resulted in the achievement of insulin independence in the first series of successful islet ...