New Islet Cell Transplantation Technique Frees Woman With T1D From Insulin Injections.

reports that in August, scientists at the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine “used a new technique to transplant insulin-producing islet cells into a woman with type 1 diabetes.” That patient “is now living without injections of the blood sugar-regulating hormone.” During the Aug. 18 procedure, researchers “implanted...islet cells inside a ‘biodegradable scaffold’ on the omentum, a lining within the abdomen.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/type-1-diabetes-treatment-islet-cells_55f6e3aae4b063ecbfa4df4b?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living&ir=Healthy%2BLiving§ion=healthy-living