Diabetes research information and news.
Today Beta Bionics was granted FDA breakthrough device designation for the iLet bionic pancreas system. The designation was granted in all configurations of the iLet (insulin-only, glucagon-only and bihormonal). The meaning of FDA breakthrough device designation is to provide patients and health care providers with timely access to medical devices by speeding up their development, assessment, and review….
Israeli firm Betalin Therapeutics has an implantable micro-pancreas that can produce insulin in patients with diabetes. Engineered Micro Pancreas The biological scaffolding combined with insulin producing cells is an engineered micro-pancreas. Therefore, implanted into a person during a minimally invasive procedure. Betalin‘s head researcher Avi Treves says the implanted device has the ability to produce insulin in…
A new research generates insulin producing cells in a study from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Neuherberg, Germany. Read the full article here! Watch Prof. Henrik Semb explain the research in this video! Read about new human stem cell research which cured mice of diabetes!
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham revealed ‘Verapamil’, (common blood pressure medication) helps adults with Type 1 diabetes. The UAB researchers said Verapamil can help promote more insulin production in adults with recent onset Type 1 diabetes. The treatment limits the need for insulin injections. This blood pressure medication breakthrough can be a…
Dawn Belt Davis, MD, PhD talks about hopeful T1D breakthroughs coming in 2018. She’s the associate professor in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Davis speaks about exciting research in islet transplantation, 670g artificial pancreas system, insulin pumps and more. Lets hope that 2018 brings major advances in…
Professor of medicine at Columbia University Domenico Accili says he can coax endocrine cells in the gut into insulin-producing cells to reverse diabetes. If the cells in the gut reverse diabetes, it would be a game-changer for the chronic disease. Accili found in the gut, proteins called FOXO which plays a dramatic role in the cells that…
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering are conducting a study using vascularized islets. The islets are derived from human stem cells in the lab to treat type 1 diabetes. Once the blood vessels grow into the islets and are rich in oxygen, they will be transplanted into the body. Therefore, will…
Medical device company Viacyte has developed a device called PEC-Direct that can protect stem cells to be able to live inside the body, produce insulin as needed and possibly cure type 1 diabetes (T1D). Stem cells are placed into PEC-Direct and take three months to become functioning islet cells. Viacyte recently implanted the device into two…
Scientists at SymbioCellTech (SCT) have developed a technology called Neo Islets for possible type 1 diabetes (T1D) cure. It combines Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) with culture-expanded pancreatic islet cells to form three-dimensional cellular clusters. The scientists performed the technique in mice. All treated mice demonstrated normal blood glucose control without the need for anti-rejection drugs or encapsulation devices….