I was scanning my diabetes news feeds when I came across this little article “Device Protects Transplanted Pancreatic Cells From The Immune System” The article starts off with this paragraph: “Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated in mice that transplanted pancreatic precursor cells are protected from the immune system when encapsulated in polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE).? I thought to myself, cool, but what is polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE)?
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