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Implantable Cell Factories Produce Insulin

MIT developing living drug factories
This piece describes how MIT engineers have taken liver cells, converted them to insulin producing cells [MORE]

Bionic Pancreas FDA Approved

Bionic pancreas system
“Beta Bionics, a firm based in Boston, MA, won Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA for its iLet [MORE]

Smart Pills with Tiny Needles

Smart pills with tiny needles
In a foreseeable future, insulin injections, vaccinations and IV drips might be replaced with smart pills [MORE]

Pancreatic Stem Cells to Regenerate Insulin Function

Pancreatic Progenitor Cells in Pancreatic Duct
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have confirmed the location of pancreatic [MORE]

Implantable Thread of islet Cells for T1D

Thread-Reinforced Alginate Fiber for Islets enCapsulation (TRAFFIC)
In animal studies, Cornell University scientists have developed a nanoporous polymer thread that strings [MORE]

Regenerating Insulin-Producing Cells

Pancreas Insulin Beta Cells
As bodies age, the regenerative capacity of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas diminishes. This partly explains [MORE]

Engineering New Insulin Producing Cells

Insulin Producing Mini Stomachs
Scientists at Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute have induced pluripotency in stomach cells of diabetic mice and caused [MORE]

Implantable Capsule for Diabetes

MIT-Diabetes-Stem Cell
Islet cell transplantation has been tried for several years in treating Type 1 diabetes, but the body’s immune response [MORE]

Skin Cells Redesigned to Secrete Insulin

Pancreatic Islets
The title of the Nature Communications article announces a stunning achievement, “Human pancreatic beta-like cells converted from fibroblasts.” Researchers [MORE]

Purdue University’s Innovations for Diabetes

Mouse Islet Glucagon in Red
It’s only an hour’s drive between Purdue University’s campus in West Lafayette, IN and diabetes drug [MORE]

Miniorgan Produces Insulin in the Omentum

Greater Omentum
In a thrilling definition of “natural,” biomedical researchers at the University of Miami’s Diabetes Research Institute have engineered a [MORE]

Smart Insulin

Insulin Molecule
Insulin would indeed be “smart,” if it could circulate in the blood stream until precisely needed. This is the [MORE]

Optical Control of Insulin Release

Optical Control of ​Insulin Release
From the Nature Communications abstract: “Sulfonylureas are widely prescribed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes [MORE]

Diabetic Fruit Flies

Fruit fly on right, genetically altered, has symptoms comparable to type 2 diabetes.
Just about a century ago the “fly [MORE]