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Edmonton Islet Transplants Fall Short

Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006

The hope for a cure fails: Two years after receiving transplants of insulin-producing beta islet cells, only five of 36 patients with type 1 diabetes remained free of the need for insulin injections.

Pres. Bush Veto’s Bill To Further Embryonic Stem-Cell Research

Posted: Friday, July 28, 2006

Speaking in Washington, President Bush declared that the proposed law would have supported ' the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others and it crosses a real moral boundary that our society needs to respect.'

Clinical Screening Tool Developed for Identifying Type 1&1/2 Diabetes Adult Latent Autoimmune Diabetes

Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2006

The presence of 2 or more clinical risk factors for latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) may be useful for identifying adults at high risk for LADA who require islet antibody testing, a new report suggests.

Study Reveals Findings on How Insulin-Producing Beta Cells Grow and Function

Posted: Monday, May 15, 2006

A new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has shown conclusively that two receptors in the insulin-producing beta cell do not affect developmental growth, refuting a long-held hypothesis in diabetes research.

Pig Cell Research Offers Hope for Diabetes Cure

Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2006

Transplanting pig islet cells cannot come with a lot of immunosuppression, it must be a very safe treatment.

Pig Cell Research Offers Hope for Diabetes Cure

Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2006

Transplanting pig islet cells cannot come with a lot of immunosuppression, it must be a very safe treatment.

Scientists Get Cells to Produce Insulin

Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2006

If a new finding by Burnham Institute and UCSD scientists holds true, millions of diabetics could someday drastically reduce their dependence on drugs and perhaps even have a cure. They discovered that when mixed with cells from pancreatic fetal tissue, non-islet pancreatic cells could be coaxed into becoming beta cells.

Scientists Get Cells to Produce Insulin

Posted: Thursday, March 09, 2006

If a new finding by Burnham Institute and UCSD scientists holds true, millions of diabetics could someday drastically reduce their dependence on drugs and perhaps even have a cure

Encapsulated Pancreatic Islet Transplantation Feasible

Posted: Monday, January 23, 2006

Microencapsulated pancreatic islet transplantation into two patients with type 1 diabetes is showing promising results.
since the transplanted islets are physically immunoprotected into microcapsules, the recipients will not require pharmacologic immunosuppression -- whose long-term deleterious effects are only partially known."

New Drug Treatment Prevents Loss of Transplanted Islet Cells

Posted: Friday, October 07, 2005

transplanted insulin-producing cells survive better when the activation of a specific type of immune cell is blocked