Pancreatic Islet Articles & Analysis
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Diabetes drug screening platforms using patient pancreatic islet-like cells generated from induced pluripotent stem ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced three abstracts, including two oral presentations and one poster, detailing data on type 1 diabetes (T1D) and its Phase 1/2 trial of VX-880, a stem cell-derived, fully differentiated pancreatic islet cell replacement therapy, have been accepted for presentation during the American Diabetes ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today provided updates on its Phase 1/2 clinical trial of VX-880, an investigational stem cell-derived, fully differentiated pancreatic islet cell replacement therapy for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) with impaired hypoglycemic awareness and severe hypoglycemia. ...
IsletRx is an expanded population of allogeneic stem cells differentiated into functioning insulin producing pancreatic islet cells. The company then uses a proprietary technology to select the purest performing cells from its population and puts them into a microcapsule that protects the cells from being rejected by the body’s immune system. ...
IsletRx comprises an expanded population of clinical grade pancreatic islet-like cluster (ILCs) cells, derived from human stem cells, that have the ability to secrete insulin when blood sugar is low and glucagon, a hormone secreted to prevent hypoglycemia, when blood sugar levels drop in response to varying sugar levels (glucose) in the blood. ...