New diabetes treatment centre opens

Nov 18 2009

A laboratory which provides new cell-transplant treatment for people with Type 1 diabetes has been opened.

The Scottish Islet Isolation Laboratory is the only one in the UK to operate 24 hours a day.

The islet transplant programme extracts islets (cells which produce insulin) from a donated pancreas and injects them into the liver of someone with Type 1 diabetes and those who have had a kidney transplant.