Washington June 14 (ANI): While transplantation of islet cells from the pancreas to produce insulin may seem a very logical and straight forward solution for diabetics in reality it isn’t. It is limited by a dearth of insulin-producing beta cells that can be removed from donors after death and by the stubborn refusal of human beta cells to proliferate in the laboratory after harvesting. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a way to make insulin-producing human cells multiply in the laboratory potentially removing a significant obstacle to transplanting the cells as a treatment for
