New DRI Mini ‘BioHub’ Organ Would Mimic a Healthy Pancreas
Sorry, Mr. Pancreas, but your role in reversing type 1 diabetes could become irrelevant if the Diabetes Research Institute has anything to say about it.
Top diabetes researchers at the DRI plan to create a new mini-organ that would make the current efforts to transplant islet cells from a donated pancreas and into a person’s liver a focus of the past.
Instead, the DRI is developing a small man-made receptacle that it’s calling the BioHub,…