New hope against diabetes
A diabetes treatment based on one that cured mice in laboratory experiments has produced promising results in humans enrolled in an initial drug trial, killing immune system cells that attack...
View ArticlePotential diabetes breakthrough
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an...
View ArticleGiant leap against diabetes
Harvard stem cell researchers announced today that they have made a giant leap forward in the quest to find a truly effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, a disease that affects an estimated 3...
View ArticleReprogramming cells, long term
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers, representing five Harvard departments and affiliated institutions as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have demonstrated that...
View ArticlePotential diabetes treatment advances
Researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and several other institutions, have developed...
View ArticleFirst area cell transplantation center
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), three of Harvard’s clinical affiliates, and a biopharmaceutical company have formed an unusual collaboration to establish the Boston Autologous Islet...
View ArticleDouglas Melton wins Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize
In a flask of clear, pale-yellow liquid, 300 million-400 million beta cells, the insulin-producing cells that are attacked or defective in diabetics, swirl in a cocktail of cell food and Stage 6...
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