Device protects transplanted pancreatic cells from the immune system
Friday, April 10, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine have demonstrated in mice that transplanted pancreatic precursor cells are protected from the immune system when encapsulated in polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE). The study, which suggests a new approach to treating Type 1 diabetes, was published online on 8 April in the journal Transplantation...