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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance promises to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies. Researchers led by ...

For the worst cases of type 1 diabetes, islet transplantation already has freed hundreds of people from complete dependence on insulin and from life-threatening consequences of the disease. However, ...

UCSF Health transplant specialists recently performed an innovative, minimally invasive pancreatic islet transplant designed to enable a patient with Type 1 diabetes to become insulin independent. The ...

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 ...