A new invention seeks to improve cell therapy for diabetes and other diseases by circumventing the body?s own defenses ? particularly when those defenses attack the helpful tissue.

Students at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute developed an experimental stent to house donated insulin-producing cells and prevent the host?s body from destroying them.

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