Researchers have long explored ways to transplant pancreatic islets to treat type I diabetes in the long term to eliminate the need for continuous glucose monitoring and insulin injections. However, there are several challenges to this approach. Now, a study from researchers at the University of Illinois demonstrates insulin-secreting cells, called islets, show increased viability and function after spending twenty-one days inside tiny capsules containing … Continue reading Tiny drug-delivering capsules could sustain transplanted insulin-producing cells.