Transplanting insulin-making cells from fresh cadavers into diabetes patients can reverse the disease, but the procedure has been too costly for widespread use. Scientists have now developed a less costly version of the procedure.
In a trial of cell transplants in eight patients, five were free of disease 1 year after their transplants, a success rate comparable to that of previous cell-transplant trials.
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