Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

In a small cell therapy trial, 10 out of 12 people with type 1 diabetes no longer needed supplemental insulin, even a year after treatment.

A 14-year-old boy named Leonard Thompson, lying comatose from type 1 diabetes at Toronto General Hospital, became the first human to receive an injection of insulin. That one injection, administered ...