Recent Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Add New Data to Chalcogens

2012 MAY 3 -- New research, "Quantitative assessment of islets of Langerhans encapsulated in alginate," is the subject of a report. According to the authors of recent research from Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Improved methods have recently been developed for assessing islet viability and quantity in human islet preparations for transplantation, and these measurements have proven useful for predicting transplantation outcome. The objectives of this study were to adapt these methods for use with microencapsulated islets, to verify that they provide meaningful quantitative measurements, and to test them with two model systems: (1) barium alginate and (2) barium alginate containing...

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