Monday, February 07, 2005

Living donor diabetes transplant

A team at Japan's Kyoto University Hospital removed islet cells from the healthy woman, and transplanted them into her 27-year-old daughter.
The breakthrough could be a much more effective way to treat type 1 diabetes.
Islet cells have previously been taken from dead organ donors and were often damaged from cold storage or by toxins in the blood after death.

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