# Engineered Micro Pancreas in mice

**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/engineered-micro-pancreas-in-mice/1170
**Category:** T1 Research
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/engineered-micro-pancreas-in-mice/1170 "2017-06-07T03:05:59Z")
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### Author: ![Michel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/michel/32/387_2.png) [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/engineered-micro-pancreas-in-mice/1170/1 "2017-06-07T03:05:59Z")

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This interesting company makes micro pancreas constructs on scaffolds made out of lung tissue. They just won a pharmaceutical prize in Israel:

[https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news-wire/PRNews\_20170605enUK201706054114/betalin-therapeutics-wins-startup-competition-at-mixiii-biomed-2017.html](https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news-wire/PRNews_20170605enUK201706054114/betalin-therapeutics-wins-startup-competition-at-mixiii-biomed-2017.html)

The thing I liked: no vascularization needed – and you need a whole lot of them, but that also means it’s quite resilient. it is sidestepping the all the implantation issues. I am not clear on one aspect: autologous or heterologous?

[EDIT] I found what I think is the seminal publication for this:

[Lung-Derived Microscaffolds Facilitate Diabetes Reversal after Mouse and Human Intraperitoneal Islet Transplantation](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881949/)