Cell transplants stop diabetes in some patients

From Orlando, Fla., at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association

Injecting insulin-making cells into diabetes patients can reverse the disease in some cases, according to the technology’s most promising test to date.

Scientists obtained clusters of cells that include insulin-making beta cells from pancreases of cadavers. After removing extraneous proteins and immune cells from these so-called islets of Langerhans, physicians injected them into diabetes patients via a large vein in the liver.