Cells in device (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Cells in device

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Cornell University have collaborated to implant insulin-secreting beta cells grown from human stem cells into mice with diabetes, to normalize their blood sugar. The cells pictured (in purple) are inside a tiny implant that is porous enough to allow these cells to secrete insulin -- yet small enough to prevent immune cells from accessing and destroying them.

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Xi Wang

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