Diabetes researchers and bioinformaticians from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new ...

Researchers have developed a fetal pancreas organoid that contains the three key cell types in the pancreas for the first ...

The findings offer insights into beta-cell dysfunction across ... a new approach for accurately assessing cell composition in ...

This is because their immune system kills beta cells found in islets in the pancreas. Beta cells release ... "Single cell RNAseq analysis of cytokine-treated human islets: association of cellular ...

"Our research highlights the importance of studying human biology, as we couldn't have discovered this using animal cells." The new organoid that mimics the fetal pancreas can give scientists new ...

Hans Clevers, PhD, has been working on organoids from the beginning. He was group leader for twenty years at the Hubrecht Institute and has been head of pharma research and early development (pRED ...

"Our research highlights the importance of studying human biology, as we couldn't have discovered this using animal cells", she notes. The new organoid that mimics the fetal pancreas can give ...

Since these pivotal discoveries, we now know that islets comprise the endocrine portion of the pancreas. Within islets, beta cells secrete insulin, and alpha cells secrete glucagon. Scientists ...

Beta cells are isolated from a donor pancreas, purified and delivered to ... such as the specific ligand that should be used for human transplantation and the longevity of Treg-mediated immune ...

Function Features of cell that allow it to perform its function Beta cell (in pancreas) Animal Releases hormone insulin Uses its genetic instructions to assemble insulin Skeletal muscle cell ...