Encapsulated pancreatic cells offer new diabetes treatment
The findings of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston Children's Hospital and several other institutions offer a way to fulfill the promise of pancreatic islet cell transplantation.
Jan 27, 2016, 00:05 AM ISTInsulin producing pancreatic cells successfully created in lab
Fully functional pancreatic cells have been cultured by scientists from human skin cells, potentially meaning the end of daily insulin injections for sufferers of the disease.
Jan 07, 2016, 14:00 PM IST