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ReviewTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2025

The Last Mile in Beta-Cell Replacement Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Time to Grow Up.

Lorenzo Piemonti

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Review in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Transplant International: Looking Back at 2025, Looking Forward to 2026.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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  8. Allogeneic Islet Transplantation: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Lorenzo PiemontiUnit of Regenerative Medicine and Organ Transplants, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beta cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes (T1D) is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by advances in stem cell biology, gene editing, and tissue engineering. While islet transplantation has demonstrated proof-of-concept success in restoring endogenous insulin production, its clinical impact remains limited by donor scarcity, immune rejection, and procedural complexities. The emergence of stem cell-derived beta-like cells represents a paradigm shift, with initial clinical trials showing promising insulin secretion

Indexed as

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1Insulin-Secreting CellsIslets of Langerhans TransplantationAnimalsGenetic TherapyHumansbeta cell replacement therapydiabetes type 1isletscalabilitystem cell derived beta cells

Identifiers

PMID40236754
PMCPMC11998595

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