Hope of insulin cell transplant

sea-maid submitted, created time 22 hours 48 minutes (news.bbc.co.uk)

Scientists working towards pancreatic cell transplants as a cure for diabetes have taken the first step to getting around the problem of immune rejection.

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Blood vessels grown from patient's own tissues used successfully in human patients

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.nytimes.com)

Thirteen months and so far so good. Unlike earlier techniques used in Japan, which involved growing cells on a scaffold that slowly dissolved after implantation, scientists in Argentina grew whole stretches of blood vessel from the patients' own cells. The patients in question have damaged veins and arteries in their arms from regular dialysis.

This does not involve stem cells of any kind. A strip of skin is removed from the patient, but the fibroblast and endothelial cells are taken from the inside of the veins in that strip of skin

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