Engineered mini-stomachs produce insulin in mice
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have spent decades trying to replace the insulin-producing pancreatic cells, called beta cells, that are lost in diabetes. Now researchers have discovered that tissue from the lower stomach has the greatest potential to be reprogrammed into a beta-cell state. The researchers took samples of this tissue from mice and grew them into 'mini-organs' that produced insulin when transplanted back into the animals.