Sentences with phrase «cells juvenile diabetes»
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Type 1 diabetes, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is characterized by the immune system's destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas.
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Richard A. Insel, M.D., chief scientific officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a funder of Melton's work, said the «JDRF is thrilled with this advancement toward large scale production of mature, functional human beta cells by Dr. Melton and his team.
Faustman got her idea by chance while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta cells, from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.
A shortage of insulin, due to the death or inactivity of the beta cells, causes type I (formerly «juvenile «-RRB- diabetes.
Melton has testified before the U.S. Senate on stem cell research concerns, and he is active in a variety of groups concerned with the conduct of stem cell research, including the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International.
San Diego, CA (November 25, 2008)-- Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company, today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Alan J. Lewis, Ph.D., will leave the company effective January 1, 2009 to become the President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Type 1 diabetes, referred to as «juvenile diabetes,» is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin.
This doesn't count grants supporting hESC and other stem cell research made by disease foundations such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Disease, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.»
It has been used in samples of children with cancer, diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and sickle cell disease.
This subset of scales from the FES and their composite score has been used with families of children with asthma, diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, recurrent abdominal pain, sickle cell disease, and those undergoing bone marrow transplant (BMT).