Sentences with phrase «grows islet cells»

Many have suggested that embryonic stem cells could cure type 1 diabetes if researchers could transplant lab - grown islet cells.

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Too little VEGF doesn't grow vessels rapidly enough to maintain the transplanted islets, which are clusters containing hundreds of cells.

Melton's ultimate goal is to discover how embryonic stem cells grow into special cells called islets in the pancreas.

In these two microscopy images, human islets (the source of insulin cells) were poisoned with a drug to remove the insulin cells, and then treated with either an empty virus (left panel) or the therapeutic virus (right panel), and then grown in a diabetic mouse.

They all sounded three sour notes: that they had cured only about half of their mice; that they did not know whether the mice had grown new islets or merely revived dormant ones; and that they had found no evidence that spleen cells had converted to beta cells.

Experts say the length of his survival is mainly because he had a slow - growing, rare cancer called a pancreatic neuroendocrine islet cell tumor.

But the application describes ViaCyte's technology, which grows pancreatic «islet» cells from human embryonic stem cells.

Zeng and his team were able to reverse late - stage type 1 diabetes in lab mice through this strategy, not only halting the autoimmune process, but also helping new islet cells grow.