People who have Type-1 diabetes would love to be free of insulin injections and pumps. Researchers in San Francisco are now testing in animals an implantable pouch of living, insulin-releasing cells.

For individuals with type 1 diabetes – an autoimmune condition – maintaining stable blood sugar is a constant challenge.

Have you implants? Asked of the wrong person at the wrong time, such a question could be taken as prurient impertinence, with face-reddening consequences for all concerned. But for diabetes patients, ...

A schematic of how the insulin-releasing implant works. Katja Schubert / nach Krawczyk K et al., Science 2020. 3 / 3.

Implanted insulin-producing beta cells (purple) are encapsulated in a device that protects them from destruction by the immune cells, allowing them to regulate a diabetic patient's blood sugar levels ...

MIT engineers have developed a tiny implantable device that could revolutionize emergency treatment for people with Type 1 ...

Type 1 diabetes remains a problem despite having an apparently simple solution: since T1D patients have lost the cells that produce insulin, it should be possible to transplant those cells into the… ...

German doctors have successfully implanted insulin-producing cells in a patient with Type 1 diabetes using a specially constructed chamber system that does not require the use of immunosuppresant ...

Rice University bioengineers are using 3D printing and smart biomaterials to create an insulin-producing implant for Type 1 diabetics. The three-year project is a partnership between the laboratories ...

Close to a T1D cure: New insulin regulating implant. One point six million Americans are living with type one diabetes. By Marsha Lewis and Roque Correa. Published: Jul. 25, 2022 at 5:16 AM CDT ...

The field of drug delivery is literally heating up with the development of a new polymer implant that releases insulin in response to changes in temperature. L. Andrew Lyon and his colleagues at ...

People who have Type-1 diabetes would love to be free of insulin injections and pumps. Researchers in San Francisco are now testing in animals an implantable pouch of living, insulin-releasing cells.