Miniature Oxygen Tank Keeps Transplanted Islet Cells Functional for Diabetes Therapy

The potential to treat type 1 diabetes using transplanted islet cells has long been recognized, but in reality this has proven challenging partly because the transplanted islet cells die if they don’t receive enough oxygen. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Beta-O2 Technologies have now demonstrated how a miniaturized, implantable device that supplies encapsulated islet cell transplants with a renewable supply of oxygen can treat diabetic rats successfully for