Sentences with phrase «pancreas development»

He and his colleagues have painstakingly studied the signals that guide pancreas development, applying what they and others have found to develop a method that turns stem cells into mature β cells.

«The percentage of cells that become insulin positive is remarkable and way above what others have reported,» says developmental biologist Palle Serup, who studies pancreas development at the Hagedorn Research Institute in Gentofte, Denmark.

Cone snail - inspired insulin, although «still not as good as we want for human use,» Chou says, could replace the current fast - acting insulin used in artificial pancreas development.

«Doug's research on the genetic markers expressed during pancreas development have led to a reliable way to reprogram stem cells into human beta cells,» said selection committee member Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone.