Closer to the goal of treating type 1 diabetes with pancreatic islet transplants

This week in Science Translational Medicine, microbiologist Bahareh Rajaei and his colleagues at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) have presented a three-dimensional manufacturing line (pipeline) that produces rapidly and reliably clusters of endocrine cells ready for transplantation. This technique will allow to accelerate the production of these promising cell therapies. The new protocol includes several advances that reduce the presence …