11 February 2025
Plumbing the Pancreas
Advancing research in diabetes increasingly takes advantage of lab-grown models of pancreatic islets. To faithfully recapitulate real-life functions, such tissue needs blood vessels. Using human reprogrammed vascular endothelial cells – vessel-forming cells that have been genetically manipulated – this study demonstrates functional vascularisation of islets both in the lab and when engrafted into living mice
Read the published research article here
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- Video from work by Ge Li and colleagues
- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Hartman Institute for Therapeutic Organ Regeneration, Ansary Stem Cell Institute, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Published in Science Advances, January 2025
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