Phase-I Clinical Trial of Islet Transplantation Into Eye

Pancreatic islet transplantation is an approach designed to restore the body’s ability to produce insulin by transplanting beta cells (insulin-producing cells) from a donor pancreas. I don't consider most of these to be cures, because they require taking immune suppression drugs for the rest of the person's life. For me, that is just trading one disease for another. However, part of the eye (the…