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Toward a renewable source of pancreatic β-cells

Nature Biotechnology volume 26, pages 397–398 (2008)Cite this article

Insulin-producing cells generated from human embryonic stem cells protect mice from diabetes.

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Figure 1: Generation of insulin-secreting cells from hES cells.

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  1. Camillo Ricordi is at the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, 1450 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136, USA; Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA; and the Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. ricordi@miami.edu,

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  2. Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA,

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  3. Helena Edlund is at the Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden; and the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, 1450 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136, USA. helena.edlund@ucmm.umu.se,

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  4. and the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, 1450 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136, USA. helena.edlund@ucmm.umu.se,

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Ricordi, C., Edlund, H. Toward a renewable source of pancreatic β-cells. Nat Biotechnol 26, 397–398 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0408-397

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